May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BROWNING, ROBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, to the sculptor Robert Woolner ("Dear Woolner"), apologizing for not being in touch, thanking him for introducing them to Mr. Wilson, complimenting him on his career, offering photographs from their Rome trip, and describing their travel plans. 2 pages, 12mo, with integral blank. Florence, 15 June 1860

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". . . I follow your career with true delight, as I see one work succeed another in the registry of the newspapers . . . .
"Will you like to have . . . photographs, just done in Rome? The horseman is . . . from a capital little painting by Hamilton Wild, an American artist of achievement & promise . . . .
"We . . . go presently to Siena for the hot months. . . .There is no England for us this year--but next year, . . . you will see us again. . . ."