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WELbeck 0687
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THE WALLACE COLLECTION
MANCHESTER SQUARE
LONDON, W.1

21st November, 1950

Dear Mr. Seligman,

Thank you very much indeed for your letter of the 15th November. I am delighted to know the present whereabouts of Lord Moyne's Jason tapestries, and am going to write to Mr. Cunningham, asking him for photographs, accurate measurements etc.

I am very grateful to you for your help and for answering me so quickly. There seems little doubt that these tapestries are in fact those sold by Sir Richard Wallace at Christie's on the 20th April, 1976. The subjects are identical, and Lady Iveagh has recently sent me an extract from a MS book in her possession at Elveden Hall, which states that in 1876 the first Lord Iveagh purchased some Gobelins tapestries formerly belonging to Sir Richard Wallace.

With regard to the other tapestries you mention, your brother showed me the Louis XIV Beauvais armorial panel on a red ground when I was in Paris last year, and I admired it very much. I seem to remember him saying that there was in fact another one en suite with it, in which case I think these may be identical with two panels exhibited by Lord Hertford at the Musée Retrospectif exhibition of 1865. The entries in the Catalogue are as follows:

5734. Les armes de France surmontées de la couronne royale, au-dessus de laquelle brille le soleil; au-dessous, le sceptre et la main de justice. Fond rouge. Epoque de Louis XIV. 
M. le marquis d'Hertford.

5735. Le chiffre de Louis XIV, avec la couronne, sure fond bleu fleurdelisé. Au-dessous, deux masses royales. Beauvais.

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