A.M.s. regarding the death of his brother Luigi

by Schiavonetti, iccolo

$575 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Brompton: June 19, 1810. Oblong 12mo, beautifully written in copperplate script on one side of the page, bordered in black. Very good. § A sad but interesting association item, being the thanks in the third person sent by Schiavonetti to Benjamin West on the death of his brother Luigi, the engraver of Blake’s The Grave illustrations and perhaps the most renowned commercial engraver of his day. West was of course the famous American artist, founder with

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