Brief sketches of the antiques : to which is added a catalogue and price list of reproductions of antique, grecian, roman, mediaeval and religious plaster of paris statues, statuettes, busts, etc., etc.
A trade catalogue issued in New York in 1870 by R. Castelvecchi, a manufacturer and importer of plaster casts, offering classical sculpture reproductions to buyers of decorative statuary. The pictures are line engravings of Greek and Roman statues, including a standing Venus, a pair of athletic male figures, a headless female torso, and the Laocoön group with serpents, drawn in hatched black ink on cream paper, showing how sculpted forms are rendered through contour and shadow.
