Catalogue of modern etchings & drawings (framed and in the portfolio), including etchings ..
An auction catalogue from 1916 issued by the London firm Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, listing modern etchings and drawings for sale to collectors and dealers. Its plates are photographic reproductions of portrait paintings and a tonal sketch, each captioned with a lot number, showing seated and standing figures in period dress. A designer might take from them the soft grey tonality of halftone reproduction, the restrained poses of eighteenth-century portraiture, and the plain numbered plate layout.
