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Introducing Eliza Ridgley

Lot 151
25.04.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 743811
Lot 151 | Introducing Eliza Ridgley
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LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834). Autograph letter signed ("Lafayette") to Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil La Grange, 27 October 1833.In French. One page, bifolium (224 x 184mm). (Mild toning from wax seal.) Address in his hand on the integral transmittal leaf (small loss from wax seal tear); hinged to a mat and framed with an engraving of Lafayette.Introducing Eliza Ridgley and her family. Lafayette offers an introduction for "my young friend Miss Ridgley," who he had met during his triumphant return tour to the United States between 1824 and 1825: "She has come to Europe with her husband, an aunt who is still young, and Miss Campbell a fellow native of Baltimore; I like to anticipate the warm reception of this friendly company at the French embassy, and in general I am sure that the citizens of the United States are favourably received there." Then serving as the French Ambassador to Naples, Mareuil had occupied the same post in the United States during Lafayette's tour. And according to Lafayette, Mareuil was present in Baltimore when Lafayette first met Ridgley. Following their initial meeting (which occurred either in 1824 or 1825), Ridgley and Lafayette maintained a decade-long correspondence culminating in her visiting Lafayette at La Grange shortly before his death. Eliza Ridgley (1803-1867), who was well-known traveler and arbiter of taste is perhaps best known today as the subject of Thomas Sully's Lady with a Harp (1818) which is part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art. While Lafayette's letters to Ridgley were known for some time and published in 1957, only recently have her letters to Lafayette come to light. See Basil Considine, "Letters to a Marquis: New Documentary Findings in the Correspondence of Eliza Eichelberger Ridgley of Hampton and the Marquis de Lafayette," Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol 114 (Spring/Summer 2019), pp. 43-78.
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