- 937
Wren, Sir Christopher
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Description
- Wren, Sir Christopher
- Autograph letter signed ("Chr. Wren"), to John Vanburgh ("Mr Vanbruck")
- paper
Asking permission of an unnamed committee "to be absent upone special occasions," pointing out the urgent need to remove a house that "will obstruct the farther progresse of the worke" and recommending providing an advance of £500 to workmen, one page, folio [first two decades of the eighteenth century]; sunned, browning, damage to paper from ink acidity with small holes neatly repaired. Red morocco-backed folder.
Provenance
Sotheby's, 12 December 2002, lot 153. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch
Catalogue Note
A rare letter between two of the greatest architects of their age. Vanburgh worked with Wren in a number of capacities in the first two decades of the eighteenth century, including for both the Royal Works, the Fifty New Churches Commission, and the Commission for building Greenwich Hospital.