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Autograph Letter Signed ‘R.J.Lane’, to G.D.Tomlinson, about entering Tomlinson’s pictures in the Academy exhibition, discussing the role of “the Hangers” and their appointment, offering to take charge himself of Tomlinson’s pictures. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine, with the original franked envelope. 3 Osnaburgh Terrace, 2 March [1857]. Richard James Lane (1800 – 1872), was a prolific Victorian engraver and lithographer. The National Portrait Gallery has some 850 lithographs of his portraits and figure studies, done between 1825 and 1850. “… I never yet heard of an appeal of the sort made to a Hanger that was received with anything but a smile.- and I never made or conveyed one …”