Six autograph letters and six drafts for payment to James Unwin

Item author: Thomas Gainsborough
Item date: 1763-1770
Grant Value: Presented
Item date acquired: 1955
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

James Unwin was Gainsboroughs attorney; the letters give a charmingly intimate picture of the artists life at Bath. Add MS 48964. Presented by Sir Eric Miller. Illustrated as plate II of AR

Item Provenance
In 1922 they were in the possession of Captain Edward Unwin VC, a descendant of James Unwin.