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A catalogue raisonne of the select collection of engravings of an amateur (1828)

Wilson, Thomas, solicitor, agent to Lord Portman, Warren, Henry, 1794-1879, Hays, H, Howard, Frank, 1805-1866, Periam, G. A, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 · London : [Thomas Wilson?] · leaf 77

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. The angel Gabriel is ascending a staircase on the left, holding a branch of lily in the left hand, and pointing with the right towards heaven, to express his mission. The Virgin is kneeling on the right, and God the Father is represented above. Bartsch, Vol. xv. pa. 67, No. 2. 118. A BATTLE… … many of the essentials, and more of the accessaries of the art, is not to be defended or overlooked, even in consideration of his fertile invention and graceful design. He is greatest when engraving from the creations of his own vivid fancy. He died about 1580. I 2

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