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Autograph Letter Signed ‘John Scott’, to Mr. Ackermann, asking him to give the bearer a cake of Sepia and half a dozen sheet of Bristol paper. 1 page 6 x 4 inches, with the address leaf, dusty, filing hole. 24 August 1811. John Scott (1774–1827), engraver. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a tallow-chandler in Newcastle; but at the end of his articles went to London, where his fellow-townsman Robert Pollard gave him two years’ instruction, at the same time paying him. On leaving Pollard, Scott obtained employment from John Wheble, the proprietor of the Sporting Magazine, and for many years executed the portraits of racehorses published there. He became known among English animal engravers.