Catalogue of the well-known collection of choice old engravings, formed by the late Henry William Bruton, Esq. ... mezzotints after old masters and artists of the XVIII century, by celebrated engravers ...
This is an 1921 London auction catalogue from Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, listing the collection of Henry William Bruton and offering old-master and eighteenth-century mezzotints for sale to collectors. The four pictures are plates of mezzotint portraits and genre scenes, each captioned with a lot number, with one plate printed sideways. A designer could take from them the soft, velvety tonal range of mezzotint, with deep shadows and glowing highlights suited to moody portraiture and period-style imagery.
