Chats on old miniatures
Chats on Old Miniatures is a 1908 New York book by J. J. Foster, published by F.A. Stokes, written for collectors and readers interested in portrait miniature painting. Its pages show oval reproductions of small portrait miniatures, printed rotated on the page, each with a painter's name and sitter's caption set in capitals above or below. A designer might take the tight oval framing, soft grey tonal modelling and the plain sepia-toned pages with their centred captions as a restrained vintage portrait layout.
