pencil and watercolour (blue, pink, brown) drawing on paper, with sketched musical instrument, wings and left hand, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
'My Lord Duke I inclose according to your request the three italian drawings and three 2 modifications of three designs as well as / and one as a substitute for the arched chimney piece a drawing of the chimney piece at Syon with its modification. If your Grace approves of Syon modification and you / of any of them(?) the working the working drawings could be made either here or in Rome from / the sketches sufficiently indicate the design / the small drawings desire to send to Italy a cast of the / the details
new(?) figure of the boy and the mouldings I would be undertake superintending the casting of the boy and the mouldings'
Letter (continuation): -ink text on paper -loose -11.5 x 18.5 cm -[text] 'the reverse is the figure of the Apteryx and a Wreath to be composed of the plants indigenous to the country.'
[text]: '... good meat and (?) (?) ... wise the day before their ... [ex]cellent cold roast beef whether ...arked difference in the quality ...(?) (?) (?) a letter (?)'
Frieze design featuring seated nude warrior (perhaps Ares) with spears and shield, seated woman (perhaps Aphrodite), nude ephebe in Phrygian cap, and female servant with jug and cup: