Illustrator, Frederick M. Coffin - Autograph Letter Signed 1853
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Autograph Letter Signed, “Fred M. Coffin”. One page, small 4to, NY, Oct. 19, 1853. The illustrator writes to editor and artist Benson J. Lossing. Good content regarding design of “Committee before the President. I cannot find anything either a portrait of Jackson or anything like a picture of the room in the White House which makes it rather embarrassing for me to go on with the sketch…” Ink somewhat light.
FREDERICK M. COFFIN (1822 – ?) The illustrations for the book "Twelve Years a Slave" were drawn by Frederick M. Coffin and then produced as wood engravings by Nathaniel Orr. Coffin early manifested a genius for art by drawing and grouping animals. He engaged himself in sketching and drawing figures for a fresco painter in Boston. In 1854, he took up his residence in New York and devoted himself exclusively to drawing and designing for the magazine and book publishers of that city and Boston.
Benson John Lossing was a prolific and popular American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War.
FREDERICK M. COFFIN (1822 – ?) The illustrations for the book "Twelve Years a Slave" were drawn by Frederick M. Coffin and then produced as wood engravings by Nathaniel Orr. Coffin early manifested a genius for art by drawing and grouping animals. He engaged himself in sketching and drawing figures for a fresco painter in Boston. In 1854, he took up his residence in New York and devoted himself exclusively to drawing and designing for the magazine and book publishers of that city and Boston.
Benson John Lossing was a prolific and popular American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War.
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