Graduation de la Famille Anglaise.
A Paris, chez Genty, Rue St. Jacques, No.14. Depose a la Direct.n de la Lib.ie [n.d., 1816].
Hand-coloured etching. 225 x 350mm (8¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
An English soldier with his wife and other family members arranged in descending order of height - right down to a puppet controlled by a young boy at the far left end. By Jean Baptiste Genty (1770 - 1820; fl). He is recorded as a miniaturist exhibiting from 1799 to 1808, pupil of Jacques-Louis David. From 1814 he became a publisher of caricatures, lithographs and costume plates.
[Ref: 58460] £260.00
Hand-coloured etching. 225 x 350mm (8¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
An English soldier with his wife and other family members arranged in descending order of height - right down to a puppet controlled by a young boy at the far left end. By Jean Baptiste Genty (1770 - 1820; fl). He is recorded as a miniaturist exhibiting from 1799 to 1808, pupil of Jacques-Louis David. From 1814 he became a publisher of caricatures, lithographs and costume plates.
[Ref: 58460] £260.00