Item 1954/1 - Letter from Philip Grierson

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JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/GRIERSON/1954/1

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Letter from Philip Grierson

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  • 1954 (Creation)

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Grierson, Philip

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Letter from Philip Grierson, in typescript, single page, dated 20 December 1954, returning a photo of James III and noting that, according to [Edgar] Winstanley, IS will be "somewhere" in the Mediterranean "in H.M. services" during Christmas. He also asks for an offprint of IS's last article in the BNJ as well as the photo in Fig. 3, which he wishes to use in a lecture on coin portraiture. PG then offers a series of comments, presumably on the article, mainly in connection with coin portraiture, concluding that he is "inclined to think that Scottish coin is the earliest portrait outside of Italy". He further states that "it is particularly interesting [...] because the ¾ facing bust derives from paintings [...]".

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