Philip Hunt Archive

Item author: Philip Hunt
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 156,846 (tax remission)
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2006
Item institution: British Museum
Town/City: London

This archive falls into two parts. The first is the surviving archive of the Rev. Philip Hunt, who was Lord Elgin's chaplain during his embassy (1799-1803). This group includes the Italian translation of the firman given to Lord Elgin in July 1801 which enabled him to remove sculptures from the Parthenon and Hunt's letters to his father and to his patron, Lord Upper Ossory. The second group consists of a number of documents, letters, a diary and sketchbook on Athens and its antiquities, dating from betwen 1699 and 1840.

Item Provenance
Hunt family and by descent; William St Clair.