1689703252000 1689680838000 Standard Record object-110009164 1747159854200 1690893759000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009164 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009164 a9fa4460-e836-3bff-bfc9-50274f8e08ad 2 person reference agent-150522 adlib-agent-150522 4dec5047-6f47-36f5-bd3b-cdb64cfaf960 Cockerell, Sydney C. person reference agent-114242 adlib-agent-114242 009e04ac-bfc7-3901-b9d4-712d1094e294 Reynolds, Frances person reference agent-207249 adlib-agent-207249 fdca3d4a-dad0-38b9-b0b5-58de1e51c267 Burn, J. H. person reference agent-76872 adlib-agent-76872 d5d27ca2-84fb-3471-8f22-1e91d46694bd Lawrence, Thomas content description A manuscript transcription of an essay entitled 'The Adaptation of Talents'. Foliated 1-21; text occupies the recto sides of ff. 1-13. The handwriting is neat with a few revisions in the same hand as the rest of the text. A note on the flyleaf identifies it as "'An Essay on the Adaptation of Talent as regards Genius and Art. Autograph Manuscript by Sir Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy" Below it is written, in the same hand: "This manuscript was the adoration of Sir Thomas Lawrence at whose sale I obtained it. J. H. Burn" Further down on the same page is a note by former Fitzwilliam director Sydney C. Cockerell questioning this attribution. Cockerell writes: "The date of this MS is probably 1790. I do not think that it is an autograph MS. Reynolds's eyesight was failing at this time. Was it dictated? SCC Nov 17 1916 Is there any certainty that this is by Reynolds at all? Is it perhaps by his sister Miss Frances Reynolds? See Graves & Cronin, p. 818 This leaf [i.e. the flyleaf] has a watermark 1799, but it is not part of the MS." The reference to Graves and Cronin is to "A history of works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A." by Algernon Graves, F.S.A. and William Vine Cronin, in which they note that Frances Reynolds had written an "Essay on Taste". As Cockerell notes, the flyleaf has a 1799 watermark, but it is not made from the same paper as the rest of the manuscript, whose watermark shows a post horn in a shield above the initials H&W. The manuscript was purchased by Charles Fairfax Murray from F. S. Ellis, who must presumably have obtained it from J. H. Burn. Gen/R/ReynoldsJ/AT/1 1 accession number Gen/R/ReynoldsJ/AT/1 110009164 priref 110009164 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009164 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009164 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1789 1789 1789 1789 1792 1 1792 1792 1792 reference agent-114271 adlib-agent-114271 caff4b6f-c91d-36a3-b2ab-38cf4c81da19 Reynolds, Joshua 1 volume The Adaptation of Talents, attributed to Joshua Reynolds: Manuscript object OBJECT