TROLLOPE (Frances, 1780-1863, Novelist, Mother of Anthony Trollope, Traveller to America)

Formal Autograph Letter in the third person “Mrs Trollope requests the pleasure of Mr and Mrs Hiram Power’s company on Monday evening...”, 1 side sm. 8vo., Casa Olivieri, 14th December no year

The recipient if almost certainly Hiram POWERS (1805-1873) who was an American neoclassical sculptor. He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture The Greek Slave. Fanny Trollope helped launch his career when she had him sculpt Dante's Commedia. In 1837 he moved to Italy and settled on the Via Fornace in Florence, where he had access to good supplies of marble and to traditions of stone-cutting and bronze casting. He remained in Florence till his death.

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Stock No:  42753      £275

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