1991.1016.996.Z22

Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay On Certain Stipple Engravers and their Work in Colour

Julia Frankau (author), J.C. Francois (engraver), Macmillian & Co. (publisher), R.& R. Clarke Ltd. (printer), Emery Walker (collector)

Book entitled 'Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay On Certain Stipple Engravers and their Work in Colour' by Julia Frankau. Published by Macmillan and Company Limited, 1900. Illustrated with fifty-one pictures in black and white and one in colour. With chapters on: 'The Early History of Engraving', 'Chiaroscuro', 'Early Colour Prints', 'Jakob Christoph Le Blon and his Invention of Colour-printing Mezzotints', 'Colour Printing in England in the First Half of the18th Century', 'The Meeting of Stipple Printing and Colour Engraving in France', 'Furniture, China, Paper- the State of the Manufactures in England before Mechanisation' and chapters on artists and principal engravers: Bartolozzi, Burke, Cheesman, Collyer, Conde, Dickinson, Gaugain, Hogg, Jones, Knight, Marcuard and others. From the library belonging to Emery Walker.

, London, Edinburgh, London

1900-01-01 - 1900-12-31

Early 20th century

cardboard, cotton, paper, gilt

To Mr Emery Walker, [my appreciation] [?] / from his friend the authoress / Julia Frankau