Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 375

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LEECH, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, with a small ink drawing Signed, to "Sir," declining to send drawings or entertain proposals for original work. The drawing, at lower edge of fourth page following the text, a caricature of a gentleman's head in profile, showing his large nose, high collar, and top hat. Signed at lower right of drawing and again after letter. 2 pages, square 8vo, written on the first and fourth pages; remnants of prior mounting overall on second and third pages, folds, faint scattered soiling. "Kensington" [London], 28 July 1863

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". . . Most of my drawings are made with a view to publication, and those I have by me . . . I am not much disposed to part with them at present. Anything quite original I should not like to undertake . . . . I am so . . . occupied with a forthcoming second series of oil sketches . . . ."