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Inscribed inside front cover in violet ink: "S. for Portrait of Mrs. Bouvery Grosvenor Sq. | (not mentioned by Roberts in the Catalogue) | Comes from a S. B. dating 1774/5 R.R.M.S."; inscribed on page 3 in brown ink: "Mr. More | Sr. Thomas Champness | Mr. Drake about the Stretching | Frame | Master Harding | Mr. Tarrington about the [...] in Furnivals Inn | Send to Lady [...]corde | Hariot | Mrs Bo[...]ery in Grosvenor Place"; on verso: "As I purpose leaving England in two or three weeks time I take the Liberty to remind you that Mr Smith’s Picture has not been payd for and to tell you that it would be doing me a great obligation to remittance of the above bill [...]"; inscribed on page numbered 20 in brown ink: "A Steele Stove with Irons £4=17 | A Bed 14=16 | A Carpet | 9=11=2 | Covers for the Chairs of yellow Check 2=10=2 | Six Mahogany Back Stools in [...] 6=18 | One Mahogany Card Table 1=18 | One Pembroke Table 2=8 | Six Chaires with matted seats 1=10=6 | Two Loking glasses 2=12=6 | one Loking glass oval 4=10=0 | one grate [...] two pair of [...] 1=4=0 | one mahogany Chest of Drawers 3=0=0 | 55 16=4" in graphite: "B Nale N505 £10 | 46 0"; on verso in graphite: "Mr. Williams [...] Mr. [...] Mr. john [...] Mr. Moore | Write to Mrs Stevens and about the Pistol | Mr. Bankes | Get Drawing back [...]"; inscribed inside back cover in blue ink: "S[...]tion on P.4. | Lady Clanricarde 1783 | N.B. Not to be mistaken with the De Burgh of 1776 Col[...] Donaldson." and "N.B. May be a portrait of the Daughter of Lady Clanricarde"

Oval collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4541); circular collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4542)

Gold label with scratched lettering in red pen on cover: "G. Romney"