A trio of eighteenth century French engravers of portraits in miniature : Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup
A 1898 New York monograph by William Loring Andrews, printed by the Gilliss Press for Dodd, Mead, studying three eighteenth-century French engravers of miniature portraits: Ficquet, Savart and Grateloup. The pictures are reproduced plates of oval portrait engravings set in architectural frames, with sitters in wigs and robes, bordered by carved cartouches, swags of flowers and small pastoral vignettes at the base. A designer could take from them the oval-medallion-in-frame layout, the tight engraved line shading, and the ornamental cartouche lettering beneath each sitter.
