SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Autograph letter signed ('Percy B. Shelley') to [Amelia] Curran, Bagni di Pisa, 17 September 1820 , explaining that though 'circumstances still chain us here', he and Mary hoped to visit Rome, 'Rome is a city the attractions & repulsions of which are stronger than those of any other place in the world', asking her if she had heard of 'the absurd proceedings in England', adding his opinion, ' My only hope is, that the mistake into which Ministers have fallen will precipitate them into ruin whoever may be their successors in power it is impossible that they should exercise it worse!', expressing the hope she would consider keeping for the present the balance of an account, 'If I could believe it would be considered by you as part of a pledge for the completion of a portrait of Beatrice Cenci, I would be extremely happy', and referring to the baths he was taking for a pain 'which sometimes torments me greatly', 2½ pages, 4to , integral address leaf (corners of address panel holed, seal professionally repaired). The Shelleys met the painter Amelia Curran daughter of John Philpot Curran, in Rome in 1819 when she painted portraits of Shelley himself (the romantic portrayal now in the National Portrait Gallery), Mary, and their baby son, William, who died on 7 June 1819. Shelley was at work (May-August 1819) on his own rendering of the dramatic story of the Cenci family. In September 1819 he commissioned Amelia to make a copy of the painting of Beatrice Cenci, attributed to Guido Reni which he had seen hanging in the Palazzo Colonna. The balance of the account to which Shelley refers in the letter offered for sale probably relates to a commission for drawings for an appropriate monument for William's grave which Amelia made and which Shelley rejected (Shelley to Amelia Curran 5 August 1819, Letters , pp.106-7). The political news from England which occasioned Shelley's scorn was the public enquiry into the conduct of Queen Caroline which began on 17 August 1820. UNPUBLISHED. Frederick L. Jones, The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley , II, p.235, lists this letter as no.586 and quotes a brief six-line extract which derives ultimately from the catalogue of a sale at Puttick's, 24 December 1857: '¨1.8.0. to Milnes'.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Autograph letter signed ('Percy B. Shelley') to [Amelia] Curran, Bagni di Pisa, 17 September 1820 , explaining that though 'circumstances still chain us here', he and Mary hoped to visit Rome, 'Rome is a city the attractions & repulsions of which are stronger than those of any other place in the world', asking her if she had heard of 'the absurd proceedings in England', adding his opinion, ' My only hope is, that the mistake into which Ministers have fallen will precipitate them into ruin whoever may be their successors in power it is impossible that they should exercise it worse!', expressing the hope she would consider keeping for the present the balance of an account, 'If I could believe it would be considered by you as part of a pledge for the completion of a portrait of Beatrice Cenci, I would be extremely happy', and referring to the baths he was taking for a pain 'which sometimes torments me greatly', 2½ pages, 4to , integral address leaf (corners of address panel holed, seal professionally repaired). The Shelleys met the painter Amelia Curran daughter of John Philpot Curran, in Rome in 1819 when she painted portraits of Shelley himself (the romantic portrayal now in the National Portrait Gallery), Mary, and their baby son, William, who died on 7 June 1819. Shelley was at work (May-August 1819) on his own rendering of the dramatic story of the Cenci family. In September 1819 he commissioned Amelia to make a copy of the painting of Beatrice Cenci, attributed to Guido Reni which he had seen hanging in the Palazzo Colonna. The balance of the account to which Shelley refers in the letter offered for sale probably relates to a commission for drawings for an appropriate monument for William's grave which Amelia made and which Shelley rejected (Shelley to Amelia Curran 5 August 1819, Letters , pp.106-7). The political news from England which occasioned Shelley's scorn was the public enquiry into the conduct of Queen Caroline which began on 17 August 1820. UNPUBLISHED. Frederick L. Jones, The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley , II, p.235, lists this letter as no.586 and quotes a brief six-line extract which derives ultimately from the catalogue of a sale at Puttick's, 24 December 1857: '¨1.8.0. to Milnes'.
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