Sales catalogue 538: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/93
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 538: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    109 [COWPER (WILLIAM, 1731-1800). Poet.] PRINT EOS DOCUMENT FILLED IN. AND) SIGNED BY JOHN JOHNSON, WITH WHOM COWPER WAS RESIDING AT FAST DERERAM. Also another document in another hand with the name of William Cowper under the List of ‘‘ Inmates Lodgers, and other persons ’’ resi- dent in Johnson’s house. April; 1700: £3 10s Concerning the Rev. John Johnson’s income tax. These returns were sent in exactly one year before the death of Cowper, who died 25th April, 1800, having resided with Johnson at East Dereham for five years, after the death of Mrs. Unwin. 110 CRANAGH (LUCAS, 1472-1553). The illustrious German Painter and Engraver. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN GERMAN) TO LAND- RENTMEISTER HANS VON TAWENHEIM. I page, folio. Shrove-Tuesday, 1538. With superscription and seal. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VI). £150 A very fine letter entirely in the great painter’s handwriting. The writer, who was Court Painter to the Elector of Saxony, held a high position in the public life of Wittenberg. He was twice elected Burgomaster of this town, and the above letter was written whilst he held this office. It is addressed to the Landrentmeister Hans von Tawenheim and deals with a dispute about a safe conduct. (Trans.) :—‘‘ My Lord, dear Master, know ye that the Burgomaster and the whole Council have asked me to write to your Worship and to ask you most dili- gently that, as the decision concerning the safe conduct has been delayed, we beg of Your Worship as our kind Master and Grand Patron, to write to Herzbergk and Schweining and Pelcz they should grant us the old safe conduct until the matter is settled. We shall also try to be deserving of this from Your Worship by special Seen and through my fortune. Will you please also send an escort to them.’ te.
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