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Letter from Henry J. Duveen to Henry Clay Frick, 22 August 1906
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IMAGE Upper Left Corner of Page - HJD Monogram
21 Old Bond Street London 22nd August 1906
H. C. Frick Esq. 3.
and may not please you so much, but it is an object, nevertheless,
of the very highest quality.
The plate facing page 68, (No. 81), shows another
extremely fine picture, by Fra Fillippo Lippi. This is another
object worthy of your special attention , and I can strongly
commend it to you as a picture by this great master is a rarety.
There are, of course, a large number of other
pictures in the Collection which are not illustrated, and these
I can tell you about in detail when I come home in October, when
I shall have a lot of photographs with me.
Coming now to a very important part of the collection
namely, the sculptures I really think you ought to possess one
or two of these great masterpieces, which I may say are simply
"unique au monde".
No. 4 on plate facing page No. 12 is the most
wonderful of all. It represents a marble boy by Antonio
Rossellino. I may remark that the Berlin Museum very badly
wants to buy this piece from us, but it is impossible to accede
to their request, as they wish us to sell it to them at a price
far below our estimation. They think we ought to let them
have it simply because they are the Berlin Museum.