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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
CHARLES LORD COLCHESTER,
8$c. 8$c. (§*(?,
My Lord,
The sanction of those the most eminent for their dignity, their learning, and their love of the arts,
is an honour which animates the progress of all works of study, and makes those engaged in their
research emulate and hope they might find a favourable reception, which induces me to seek
permission to appear before your Lordship on the present occasion. While invested with the
highest honours that belong to one of the first and most important offices of the state, you with-
drew not your attention from those ornamental studies which in every polished age and nation
have been regarded as the source of public intellectual excellence as well as taste; but increasing
the dignity and honour of that situation in the British senate, from the arduous fulfilment of which
you have ascended to further elevated rank, manifested an unprecedented liberality in collecting
in that series of paintings the interesting valuable assemblage of all those preceding that had held
the same high office.
Most of the great improvements also round and in the approaches to the houses of the senate,
have been guided and effected by that active and prompt zeal which is the peculiar attribute of
your Lordship ; and many valuable arrangements and order instituted in the various public depo-
sitories of works of art, where with so much grace and condescension you have always evinced an
anxious desire of promoting every thing having tendency to literature. To such distinguished
talents may I presume to submit the few following illustrations and history of one of the most
beautiful of the Athenian temples, the Erechtheion at Athens, humbly inscribing it as a tribute to
a Nobleman, who has on all occasions received such great public respect and admiration.
I have the honour to subscribe myself,
Your Lordship's
Most faithful,
And devoted Servant,
HENRY WILLIAM INWOOD.
June, 1827.
CHARLES LORD COLCHESTER,
8$c. 8$c. (§*(?,
My Lord,
The sanction of those the most eminent for their dignity, their learning, and their love of the arts,
is an honour which animates the progress of all works of study, and makes those engaged in their
research emulate and hope they might find a favourable reception, which induces me to seek
permission to appear before your Lordship on the present occasion. While invested with the
highest honours that belong to one of the first and most important offices of the state, you with-
drew not your attention from those ornamental studies which in every polished age and nation
have been regarded as the source of public intellectual excellence as well as taste; but increasing
the dignity and honour of that situation in the British senate, from the arduous fulfilment of which
you have ascended to further elevated rank, manifested an unprecedented liberality in collecting
in that series of paintings the interesting valuable assemblage of all those preceding that had held
the same high office.
Most of the great improvements also round and in the approaches to the houses of the senate,
have been guided and effected by that active and prompt zeal which is the peculiar attribute of
your Lordship ; and many valuable arrangements and order instituted in the various public depo-
sitories of works of art, where with so much grace and condescension you have always evinced an
anxious desire of promoting every thing having tendency to literature. To such distinguished
talents may I presume to submit the few following illustrations and history of one of the most
beautiful of the Athenian temples, the Erechtheion at Athens, humbly inscribing it as a tribute to
a Nobleman, who has on all occasions received such great public respect and admiration.
I have the honour to subscribe myself,
Your Lordship's
Most faithful,
And devoted Servant,
HENRY WILLIAM INWOOD.
June, 1827.