BOEHM (Sir J. Edgar, R.A., 1834-1890, 1st Bart., Austrian-born Sculptor)

Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Madame' (Mrs. Fletcher) saying he will send "tomorrow morning my men to fetch the marble statuette & will try all I can to sell it & shall also restore the broken foot", he has been quite unable "to prepare yet any sketches for the memorial for Dublin Cathedral" but hopes soon "to get some of my most pressing work out of hand & then begin it at once", 2 sides 8vo., The Avenue, 76 Fulham Road, S.W., 11th March light traces of pin in blank top margins

Boehm was sculptor in ordinary to Queen Victoria and designed her portrait for the silver coinage of 1887.

Item Date:  1879

Stock No:  16798      £45

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