An early Connecticut engraver and his work
Albert Carlos Bates's 1906 study of Richard Brunton, an engraver working in Connecticut around 1800, printed in Hartford for antiquarians, bookplate collectors, and local historians. Reproductions show engraved armorial bookplates in line: helmeted and mantled shields bearing lions, anchors, scallops and boar heads, crests of clocks and peacocks, curling acanthus frames and motto ribbons, all built from hatching, stipple and crosshatch usable as heraldic ornament or line-art texture.
