AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED WITH INITIALS, to the line-engraver [William Bernard] Cooke (1778-1855), giving him instructions for making changes to an image before sending it to the printer ('...If you reduce the rock on which the flag staff is placed a whole tint lighter and a portion of the ground above the sheep to correspond the whole will be much improved. The line of Cove is rather too straight bring it more thus [curved line]...') and asking to be excused from calling on him the following day since he must go to Blackheath, 1 page, oblong octavo, 'Mr Cooke' on verso, folds where made into a packet, with remains of wafer seal, no place or date, [watermark date 1813]
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED WITH INITIALS, to the line-engraver [William Bernard] Cooke (1778-1855), giving him instructions for making changes to an image before sending it to the printer ('...If you reduce the rock on which the flag staff is placed a whole tint lighter and a portion of the ground above the sheep to correspond the whole will be much improved. The line of Cove is rather too straight bring it more thus [curved line]...') and asking to be excused from calling on him the following day since he must go to Blackheath, 1 page, oblong octavo, 'Mr Cooke' on verso, folds where made into a packet, with remains of wafer seal, no place or date, [watermark date 1813]
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