- Rare Books and Special Collections
- Burney family manuscripts collection
- Receipt for purchase of Burney's General History of Music with portrait of Charles Burney
Receipt for purchase of Burney's General History of Music with portrait of Charles Burney
item[not before 1789]MS Burney-0070
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- Held by
- Rare Books and Special Collections via McGill University Archival Collections
- Dates
- [not before 1789] (indexed as 1789–1820)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- 1 board : portrait ; 46 cm
- Scope & content
- Matted portrait of Charles Burney with a signed receipt for purchase of Burney's General History of Music (4 volumes, London: 1776-1789). Typescript receipt contains the following manuscript annotations by Burney: numbered: no. 156, dated: March 27, 1789, and is addressed to a Miss Cecilia, perhaps a subscriber. The portrait is engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi after an image by Joshua Reynolds, and was published in 1784. Full dimensions are: total: 46 x 32 cm; portrait: 20 x 17 cm; and receipt: 6 x 16 cm.
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- 2026-10-15T16:13:35Z · source datestamp 2023-05-16T19:20:36Z · ead