Ploos van Amstel, facsimile engraving
A 1765 Amsterdam print portfolio by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, a Dutch printmaker who made facsimile reproductions of drawings and prints for collectors. The plates copy works by other artists, so the set documents Dutch genre and landscape drawing of the period. Designers can take from it the tonal range of ink and wash, with soft grey shading, loose contour lines, and figures set in simple village and town scenes.
