A catalogue raisonne of the select collection of engravings of an amateur
A London catalogue of 1828 compiled by Thomas Wilson, a solicitor, listing an amateur's private collection of engravings. The pictures are small etched and drawn initials, each letter enclosing a genre scene such as a reading woman, a figure at a writing desk, or a candlelit interior, with a few Classical figures. A designer could take from them the device of a large decorative letter used as a frame for a miniature scene.
