COSWAY Maria - ALS 1802 defending her Galerie du Louvre project Category_Science and Engineering

COSWAY Maria - ALS 1802 defending her Galerie du Louvre project Category_Science and EngineeringMaria COSWAY (1760 1838) Autograph Letter Signed (M. Cosway) to Mr. Colnaghi in Coxport [Cockspur] Street, defending the merits of a work on which she was engaged [The Galerie du Louvre, a project for a series of prints]. 2 pages 4to in Italian, with integral address leaf, Paris, 23 March 1802. Trans: I have seen the letter you have written to Mr. Griffiths, I regret the threat not to be able to continue the publication of the work. I hope however

It is said that on the way to the ceremony

He is further obliged to import cotton or other raw materials to the same value

The great dance critic and writer

together with Manzi and Joyant

13¼ x 9¾ cms

4 June 1811

But – the country

I have mislaid your letter and your Christian name has escaped me

Meanwhile I pray you to try and find her an outlet

& I presume all expenses would be paid

a criminal who “turned gamekeeper” as founder the Sureté Nationale and his own private detective agency led a remarkably colourful life

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