Original designs of the most celebrated masters of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine, and Venetian schools : comprising some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, the Caracci, Claude Lorraine, Raphael, Michel Angelo, the Poussins, and others, in His Majesty's collection
A London folio of 1812 by John Chamberlaine, F.S.A., printed by W. Bulmer and Co. at the Shakespeare Press, reproducing old master drawings from the royal collection of George III for a collector and print-buying audience. The plates are tonal sepia and grey-green wash reproductions of Italian drawings, many showing classical ruins, architectural capriccios, and mythological groups, offering a designer compositional studies of ruins, arches, and figures in landscape to adapt for period or classical-themed work.
