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Paper. Etat : Good. First Edition. Two Original Handwritten and Signed Letters by British painter Thomas Webster to Photographer Charles Thurston Thompson. Undated. The letters are on non-headed paper addressed to My Dear Thurston discussing postponing a meeting they have arranged and the other saying that he has received a letter since seeing your sister this morning that compels him to go to London this evening and therefore come in tomorrow like a good fellow. Thomas Webster RA ( 1800 - 1886), was a British painter of genre scenes of school and village life, many of which became popular through prints. He lived for many years at the artists' colony at Cranbrook in Kent. Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-1868) was an early British photographer. Thurston Thompson is credited with having taken the first ever photograph of a photographic exhibition, in his capacity as the official photographer of the South Kensington Museum, now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum, appointed to the role in 1856 His work is included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Getty Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Size is 158mm x 100mm max. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Slogt loss to edge of one letter. Ref19257. Signed by Author(s).