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Queens Square Place
St James's Park
Novr 1789

My good Lord!

Your acceptance of A Portrait of my Eldest Son is
so flattering a Testimony of your Lordships Friendship
and regard for the Original, that I cannot let it go
without making my Acknowledgement for the honour
it do's him, by giving it a Place where there is so
noble and so valuable a Collection, that I cannot could
help regretting that wish the Piece it self had not so little
more pretension to such a distinction. The Portrait, at
least the Capital Part of it, I mean the Head, was
done by Fry a Painter of no small eminense in
his Time, and was then looked upon as a very
striking Resemblance, how little Likeness soever
there may be now, but, by the death of Fry before
it was finished, the Under Part was the work of a
different, and I am sorry to say, an indifferent Hand
The Two Stanzas inscribed on it were Part of a
a Copy of Verses of my Son's own Composition, in
the Collection of the University Verses upon the occasion of
the late King's Death, and the Accession of his present
Majesty, and were introduced into the Picture for the
purpose of denoting the Time when it was drawn,
He being then a Member of Queen's College Oxford, to

Identifier: | JB/541/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1789-11-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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