Description
A good Autograph Letter Signed ‘W.Finden’, to Thomas Cooke about the death of his father [George Cooke (1781-1834), the engraver. 2 pp. 9 x 7½ inches, in good condition, with the integral address leaf. Southampton Place, 1 March 1834 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).