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A wanderer in Paris

Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 · 1921 · London, Methuen · 49 pictures

A traveller's guide to Paris by the English essayist E. V. Lucas, published by Methuen in London in 1921 for British and American visitors touring the city's museums and streets. The fifty plates are monochrome halftone reproductions of paintings then hanging in the Louvre and the Luxembourg, among them Whistler's portrait of his mother, Botticelli's Villa Lemmi fresco, and pastoral landscapes with cattle and grazing figures, all printed with soft grey tonal gradients and captioned in small letterspaced capitals.

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