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Lot 716
Sale 5520 - Pennsylvania Sale
Nov 23, 2008
7:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$1,200 -
1,800
Price Realized
$2,000
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1 piece. 1 piece.
Autograph Letter Signed. Eakins, Thomas. Philadelphia, 1729 Mount Vernon [St.], January 25, [18]79. 1 p., 8vo; minor creasing along folds, but crisp and clean. With orig. addressed envelope to James D. Smillie (American engraver and etcher, among the founders of The American Society of Painters & Watercolor): "I send you for your illustrated catalogue a sketch of my water color 'A Quiet Moment.' I asked my pupil Miss MacDowell [Susan H. MacDowell, whom Eakins married in 1881] to make a sketch of the watercolor, 'waiting for her money'."
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