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A lengthy Autograph Letter Signed, to “My Dear Williams”, discussing pictures and engravings, “my big picture”, the lack of artist engravers, family news, etc. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, dusty at folds, in good condition. 25 Mornington Place, 4 May 1843. William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883), watercolour painter, one of the last classical landscape painters in England, travelled through Europe in the 1830’s. Engravings of his work illustrate Walsh’s Constantinople and the Turkish Empire (1838), Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece (1840), Brockedon’s Italy (1843) and similar works. “As for my own miserable self I am digging at drawings for engraving, & I dare say you that tis a great bore as there are so few Artists in these gentlemen of the steel, copper & brass department.”