Original designs of the most celebrated masters of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine, and Venetian schools; comprising some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, the Caracci, Claude Lorraine, Raphael, Michel Angelo, the Poussins, and others, in His Majesty's collection;
A folio of facsimile engravings after Italian and French old-master drawings in the British royal collection, compiled by John Chamberlaine and printed by W. Bulmer in London in 1812 for connoisseurs and collectors of prints. The plates reproduce chalk and wash drawings in warm brown and sepia tones "in His Majesty's Collection" \u2014 wooded Claudean river landscapes with tiny figures, ruins and shipping, plus figure groups and mythological scenes with heavy ink shadow, useful as tonal landscape backgrounds, soft-edged tree masses and loose figure studies.
