Joseph Bonomi, Sir John Soane's Museum, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Signor Giovanni [John Gibson]

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Reference code

GI/1/25

Title

Joseph Bonomi, Sir John Soane's Museum, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Signor Giovanni [John Gibson]

Date

24 Dec 1864

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Bonomi sends Christmas greetings. He attaches a newspaper cutting quoting a remark of Gibson's that he had been melancholy all day after seeing a newly-discovered statue of Hercules: "to think that, after the labour of a life, I had made such slight approaches to the perfection of the master hand which had executed that work." Bonomi concludes with some personal news, and mentions a visit from Gibson's brother, Solomon.