SCRIVEN, Edward. 17779

£45

Description

Autograph Letter Signed, writing to thank his correspondent and “to satisfy your mind’s anxiety about the plate” which is now in an advanced state and will be ready in a day or two. A good one page example, 7 x 4 inches. 46 Clarendon Square, Tuesday morning, undated. Edward Scriven (1775 – 1841), English engraver of portraits, in the stipple and chalk manner. Scriven was the pre-eminent engraver of his generation, with 206 portraits ascribed to him by the National Portrait Gallery. Scriven worked mainly for the publishers of expensively illustrated books and serials, such as the British Gallery of Portraits, (1809–17); Ancient Marbles in the British Museum (1814) ; Henry Tresham and William Young Ottley’s British Gallery, 1818; Edmund Lodge’s Portraits of Illustrious Persons, 1821–34; Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s Ædes Althorpianæ, 1822; William Jerdan’s National Portrait Gallery, 1830–4; and Anna Jameson’s Beauties of the Court of Charles II, 1833.