Gabr.l Smith fec.t.
[London: Carington Bowles, John Bowles & Robert Sayer, 1765.]
Crayon-manner etching. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), with large margins. Small rust hole in unprinted area, stitch holes in left margin.
From 'The School of Art; or, most compleat drawing-book extant: consisting of an extensive series of well chosen examples, selected from the designs of those eminent masters Watteau, Boucher, Bouchardon, Le Brun, Eisen, &c. &c. engraved on sixty folio copper plates, and performed in a method which expresses the manner of handling the chalk, and the management and harmony of its tints in real drawings'.
BM: 1891,0511.316.20.
[Ref: 44235]  £120.00