Description
Autograph Letter Signed, telling his correspondent that he had been unable to find “some sheets you mention being offered in Hanover St. that would suit the Aristocracy”. 1 page 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, integral blank leaf tipped on to album page. 18 Southampton Place, 3 November 1843. William Finden (1787-1852), engraver, and younger brother, Edward Francis Finden (1791–1857), became known for the their great series of steel engravings such as Finden’s Landscape Illustrations to the Life and Works of Byron (1832), popular works such as Finden’s Gallery of the Graces (1832–4), and their most ambitious production, the folio-size Royal Gallery of British Art (1838–40).