William Hogarth, letter to John Joshua Kirby

Item date: 1754
Grant Value: £1,500
Item cost: £15,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2008
Item institution: Hounslow Local Studies Service
Town/City: London

Hogarth wrote to John Kirby on 7 June 1754 advising him on handling a controversy about perspective, a subject on which Kirby, an artist, architect and topographical draughtsman, was an expert. Autograph letters of Hogarth are extremely rare.

Item Provenance
Maggs Bros Limited