?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BEWICK, THOMAS. Autograph Letter Signed, to printer George Allan of Darlington, discussing his work, printing and engraving techniques, forthcoming projects, etc. 1 1/2 pages, folded 4to sheet with integral address leaf; a bit chipped at bottom edge not affecting text, lightly soiled at edges. Newcastle, 6 May 1788
". . . at present very busily employ'd upon a set of Copper Plates for Liddell's Lapland Tour . . . Mr. Tunstall, in a letter to us says that the drawings by Mr. Bayley are better done than this print. I cannot help differing in my opinion with him for I think the drawings . . . very faulty and out of joint . . . I would strongly recommend them being engraved on copper with aqua tinta, which secret as well as some others we have discovered, since I began the new employment of engraving in that way. Is the cross-hatching a tedious and laborious business? If so, I should think the discovery of no value, as every effect can be produced by the other way . . ."<
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