BIB_ID
80498
Accession number
MA 8834
Creator
Astle, Thomas, 1735-1803.
Display Date
1791 July 22.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.1 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Address on verso: "To/ Mr. Sewell/ Bookseller/ Cornhill".
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. 4, p. 178.
With a watermark.
Written from "B. Rise", which may refer to Battersea Rise, where Astle lived in his later years.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. 4, p. 178.
With a watermark.
Written from "B. Rise", which may refer to Battersea Rise, where Astle lived in his later years.
Summary
Offering Sewell a print of himself: "I have had a Miniature painting of my Phiz done by a capital hand. If you choose to have a good engraving of it done by a person whom I shall name, it shall be at your service."
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