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Letter from Roger E. Fry to [Henry Clay] Frick, 26 September 1910
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Paintings Book
OFFICE OF H. C. FRICK
RECEIVED
OCT 10 1910
FORWARDED
REFERRED
Sept. 26. 1910.
Dear Mr. Frick.
I have written to Lord Warwick to
make arrangements for seeing his friend Romney I
will report to you upon it. Unless it is something
altogether exceptional I hope you will not buy it.
Romney is not a great maker, he is pretty & decorative
and so forth but he is not up to the standard which
your great masterpieces impose. Still this is premature &
I promise to judge the picture without any preconceptions.
The Turner would be a splendid accession to your collection
and I shall do my best to approach Mrs. Ashton carefully
about it.
I will send you the resumé of the history of the Polish Rider shortly. Will you kindly thank Miss Frick for her note about this.
I have found a rather beautiful Venetian picture of Judith with a not too repulsive head of Holofernes. It
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