Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - photo 1
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - photo 2
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - photo 3
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - photo 4
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - photo 5
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - photo 6
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) - photo 7

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Lot 49
10.07.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 5 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
Buyer Premiumsee on Website%
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 1249739
Lot 49 | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 8 000
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Seven autograph letters to [William Petty, the Marquess of Lansdowne], Dover Street and Queen’s Square Place, 20 December 1791- 11 September 1792
22 pages in total, 230 x 190mm, Shelburne pagination. Provenance: Marquesses of Lansdowne; their sale, Christie’s, Bowood House sale, 12 October 1994, lot 5.

A series of letters to the Marquess of Lansdowne on the French Revolution, prison reform and other matters. 1) 20 December 1791, 4 pages: asking to borrow the Moniteur Universel for news from France, for Bentham has heard of events in the National Assembly of 13 December, describing an unsatisfactory meeting with ?Robert Hobart [later 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire] to discuss the Panopticon, comprising false promises of its promulgation in Ireland and the manufacture of a model, as well as the extraordinary costs of transportation from Ireland to Botany Bay; 2) 4 April 1792, 2 pages: describing his financial arrangements with Lady Ashburton, who was going to lease his father’s house at Queen’s Square Place (‘an event of a nature so liable to produce disunion promises to insure an intimacy much closer than before between the two families’); 3) 9 August 1792, 4 pages: ‘Poor France turned into a Bedlam! Yet I am almost tempted to take a peep into one of the cells’, most notably on his plans for prison reform: ‘The next project I present to Administration either here or in Ireland, shall be a scheme for employing £120 a year a head in colonization instead of £60, or introducing into jails some vice that nobody as yet knows of, or destroying one half of the prisoners and letting the other half go loose’; 4) 12 August 1792, 5 pages: ‘It is all over with the poor Poles’, discussing King Stanislaw Poniatowski’s defence of Poland against the invasion of the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great, also his acquisition of a cottage at Christchurch; 5) 3 September 1792, 4 pages: ‘O the tyranny of Aristocracy! Give it a furlong, it will take a mile— a Veto kept me once from Brussels: and now comes a Lettre de Cachet ordering me to Paris’, presumably in response to a lost letter from Lansdowne suggesting that he might go to Paris as an envoy; 6) 5 September 1792, 2 pages: on events in Paris, referring to the condemnation in the National Assembly of the Commune and its Vigilance committee responsible for the September massacres; 7) 10 September 1792, one page: ‘Melancholy news! my dear Lord— by and by there will not be a single honest man left in that accursed country. Liancourt was to have dined here— instead of him comes a note from him that Rochefoucault is murdered. This is enough I doubt to spoil your dinner as it has ours’.

Published: Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 4.
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
United Kingdom
Preview
10.07.2024 – 10.07.2024
Phone +44 (0)20 7839 9060
Email
4FQ.AYGKAGLUQ@FO3G@
Buyer Premium see on Website
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase

More from Creator

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
£2 500
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
£5 000
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
£1 500
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
£4 000
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
£3 000
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and Jeremiah Bentham (1712-1792)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and Jeremiah Bentham (1712-1792)
£3 000
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
£3 000
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
£100

Related terms

Frequently asked questions

First of all, you should register to be able to purchase at auction. After confirming your email address, enter your personal information in your user profile, such as your first name, last name, and mail address. Choose a lot from the upcoming auction and the maximum amount you want to place on it. After confirmation of your choice, we will send your application by e-mail to the appropriate auction house. If the auction house accepts a request, it will participate in the auction. You can view the current status of a bid at any time in your personal account in the "Bids" section.
Auctions are performed by auction houses and each of the auction houses describes their terms of auction. You can see the texts in the section "Auction information".
The results of the auction are published within a few days after the end of the auction. In the top menu of the site, find the tab "Auctions". Click on it and you will be on the auction catalog page, where you can easily find the category "Results". After opening it, select the desired auction from the list, enter and view the current status of the interested lot.
The information about the auction winners is confidential. The auction winner will receive a direct notification from the auction house responsible with instructions for further action: an invoice for payment and the manner in which the goods will be received.
Each of the auction houses has its own payment policy for the won lots. All auction houses accept bank transfers, most of them accept credit card payments. In the near future you will find detailed information for each case in the section "Auction information" on the page of the auction catalog and the lot.
Shipment of the won lot depends on its size. Small items can be delivered by post. Larger lots are sent by courier. Employees of the auction houses will offer you a wide range to choose from.
No. The archive serves as a reference for the study of auction prices, photographs and descriptions of works of art.
?>