Sale 5142
London, South Kensington
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22 January 2007
Price realised
GBP 120
Estimate
A sure and convenient machine for drawing Silhouettes engraving depicting the taking of a young lady's silhouette by candlelight, with text analysing her physiognomy, cropped to plate margins, signed on the plate J. Holloway Direxit, 173 x 254mm.
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Literature
Thomas Ganz (1994) Die Welt im Kasten, p. 100
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