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Book Condition: Used
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers

United States
About Item: Rondout, [New York], 1851. 4to. 250 x 195 mm., [9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches]. 1 p. 20 lines. Manuscript in ink on blue paper. Previous folds, hinged on verso, a few brown spots, bright & legible. Autograph letter of introduction for two burgeoning artists to Christopher Pearse Cranch requesting that he examine the portfolios of the two artists. "Let me make you acquainted with two of our young Rondout artists-Mr. Inboy (?) and Mr. McEntee--who are to pass the winter in New York, and who have taken a room next door to yours." Channing goes on to say that they have spent the summer in the Adirondacks and have "portfolios filled with spirited sketches" for Cranch to criticize. It also mentions Cranch's pictures in the Art Union. Signed, "With affectionate regard yr W.H. Channing". Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892) attended the Harvard Divinity School , was a Unitarian minister, a Transcendentalist, poet, and a landscape painter in the manner of the Hudson River School. He studied in… Read More
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