Pictures and drawings (illustrations) / Wallace Collection.
A 1925 catalogue of paintings in the Wallace Collection in London, published by H.M. Stationery Office for visitors and students of European art. The plates show oil paintings reproduced in black and white, with portraits, genre scenes and landscapes arranged in pairs and captioned with artist, subject and catalogue number. A designer could take from them the stiff formal poses of eighteenth-century British portraiture, the dim interior genre scenes of Dutch and French painters, and the simple layouts of plain reproduction plates.
