Autograph letter signed by artist Edwin Landseer about Queen Victoria dated 1840

LANDSEER, Edwin (1802-1873). Autograph letter signed to publisher Dominic Colnaghi, concerning a lithographic engraving after his sketch of Queen Victoria.
 
Royal Academy, 12 September 1840.
 
Single sheet, written on two sides; integral blank; respondent's name and signature of Landseer on verso. Folded as sent; light creasing from original folds; minor handling marks; A very good example.
 
Landseer writes to Colnaghi that he has been “so completely occupied here” that it has been impossible for him “to go to the Palace with respect to the lithographic engraving from my sketch of the Queen.” 
 
Addressed to Dominic Colnaghi, principal of the London print-publishing firm Colnaghi & Co., long associated with the publication and distribution of engravings after leading British artists.
 
Edwin Landseer (1802–1873), Royal Academician and one of the most celebrated painters of the Victorian period, enjoyed close connections with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The present letter concerns the proposed lithographic reproduction of a sketch of Queen Victoria during the early years of her reign.