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Choice collection of fine engravings, mezzotints, colour-prints and old-coloured sporting prints of the eighteenth century, French and English school : including many examples of the work of Alix, Bartolozzi, Baudouin [et al.] ... valuable mezzotint portraits by famous XVIIIth century engravers, many in very fine and rare proof states

Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Lucerne, Switzerland) · 1900 · Lucerne : H. Gilhofer & H. Ranschburg · 29 pictures

This is a dealers' catalogue issued in 1900 by Gilhofer & Ranschburg of Lucerne, offering eighteenth-century French and English engravings, mezzotints and coloured prints to print collectors. The plates reproduce portraits in oval frames, a genre scene of a salon interior with verse beneath, and the catalogue's own pages with numbered plates. A designer might take from them the oval vignette framing, the soft tonal shading of mezzotint portraits, and the powdered wigs and period costume.

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