Lot 151: TURNER (JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM)

Autograph letter signed with initials to the line-engraver [William Bernard] Cooke (1778-1855), giving him instructions for making changes to an image before sending it to the printer ('...If you reduce the rock on which the flag staff is placed a whole tint lighter and a portion of the ground above the sheep to correspond the whole will be much improved. The line of Cove is rather too straight bring it more thus [curved line]...') and asking to be excused from calling on him the following day since he must go to Blackheath, one page, 'Mr Cooke' on verso, folds where a packet with remains of wafer seal, oblong 8vo no place, [paper watermarked 1813]