button to main menu  Eleventh Exhibition, p.22
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That my etchings have not been encouraged, would be doing great injustice to my friends, many of whom, not only possess copies of both works, but have warmly recommended them to others; but that I have been in an adequate degree repaid for the labour of ten years and for the enormous expence, I have incurred in consequence of publication, ought scarcely at present to be expected.
That it will be an income to my family after I am gone I cannot doubt, but I am not without hope that I shall reap the fruits of my labours during my life time; the success of the present and the last year is not discouraging, and I respectfully recommend these prints to the examination of all lovers of the arts, that they by seeing, may judge between my performances and those of others published with similar intentions: in thus urging comparison, it is not with a view to gratify my vanity or injure the works of others, in the public estimation; it is solely with a wish to receive that honest reward to which I trust my labours are entitled to.
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