International Sale, Part XIX

Samuel F.B. Morse Autographed Letter dated August 3, 1816. Boston, Massachusetts. 1 full page, small 4to, American artist and inventor. He was a pioneer photographer in America using the Daguerre technique taught to him by the French inventor and photographer, Daguerre. Achieved fame and fortune for the invention of the Morse code. To augment his income as a painter, he became a pioneer photographer bringing the daguerreotype to America, he was appointed professor of painting and sculpture at the University of New York and later professor of the literature and art of design. Early autographed 1816 letter to his friend and fellow artist Charles Bird King. Morse relates his current endeavors to King "I leave tomorrow morng on a sketching tour through Vermont, N.Hampshire & N.York to be gone 2 or 4 mo(nths). .....I hope one day to paint some large historical pictures...I can't get Delaplaine to pay me, I shall not paint any more for him till he does...", Important letter from this historical figure.