[Lt. Gen.Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, Commander Woolwich Garrison] Autograph Signature from Letter, laid down album page with an outstanding hand-drawn coloured crest. Verso: engraving of Caroline Norton and her facsimile signature.

See Bloomfield’s entry, and that of Norton, in the Oxford DNB. The fragment of the letter bearing his signature is 5 cm x 4.5 cm. It is dated at one corner ‘1845’, and reads ‘R. Bgham / Bloomfield’. It is laid down on one side of a 4to leaf extracted from an album and paginated 58. On the page beneath the signature, in neat and close Victorian hand: ‘Commandant, Woolwich 1845.’ At the top left-hand corner of the page, measuring approximately 6.5 x 10.5 cm, is an outstanding ink drawing of the Bloomfield arms, with crest, coronet, shield and motto (‘FORTES FORTUNA JUVAT’), hand coloured in red, blue, white, yellow. On the reverse of the leaf (paginated 57) is laid down an engraving of Caroline Norton, cut into an oval, beneath which is a slip of paper with facsimile of her signature, ‘C. E. Norton’. Engraved after a drawing by John Hayter, It dates from 1833, and is not represented in the National Portrait Gallery. The leaf is lightly ruckled, and slightly discoloured, and the engraving of Norton is somewhat discoloured, while on the other side the coat of arms and fragment with the signature are in good condition. See Images of his and her signatures etc.