Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Hogarth”, ready to call this evening and “if you are not at home, leave out the proofs & one of the young Ladies & I’ll touch them up”.1 page 7 x 4 inches, fine.25 Mornington Place, 28 April 1847.
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.