Sales catalogue 464: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/35
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 464: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1731 WOOLLETT (WILLIAM, 1735-1785). Famous English Engraver. Produced ‘‘ Death of General Wolfe,’’? and other famous engravings. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (TO BENJAMIN WEST). 2 pp., 4to. London, 5th July, 1774. £3 3s Mentioning his famous engraving, the ‘‘ Death of General Wolfe.’ “, . . Mr. Jeffereys & .myself went yesterday to Sir Joshua Vanneck at Putney in expectation of meeting Mr. Vanneck & to varnish some pictures, was disappointed of meeting him on account of a letter Mr. Jeffereys wrote was directed to Broad Street, therefore he did not receive it. When Sir Joshua was inform’d who we were & our business he received us with great politeness as likewise did Miss Vanneck. . . . Sir Joshua Vanneck is a subscriber to the Death of Genl. Wolfe & it was a great addition to the satisfaction I enjoy’d to hear him & Miss Vanneck enquiring when I heard from you & mixt with many respectful expressions of the esteem they had for you. “Mr. Vanneck is gone into Suffolk, the frame for the small picture was not dome; sa). ibis now come home, but it is not so well gilt as I could have wished.’ Ete. 1732 WOOLNER (THOMAS, 1825-1802). Sculptor and Poet. One of the original ‘‘ Pre-Raphaelite ’’ Brethren. | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO JAMES SPEDDING. I page, 8vo. Rutland Street, 11th October, 1860. 15s Mentioning Lord Tennyson, Hepworth Dixomaubranciss7. Pal STave, etc. ‘“T met Hepworth Dixon in a railway carriage the beginning of this year, and in talking over Ld. Bacon I told him of the wonderful miniature in possession of Mr. Adair Hawkins. j ‘“‘ IT had a pleasant little tour with A.T. and Palgrave through Cornwall and the Scilly Isles last month; it did Tennyson a world of good climbing among the rocks every day, his wife is rejoiced at his improved health. . . . | am working at the marble of Sedgwick.’’
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