Lettre sur la sculpture : à Monsieur Théod. de Smeth, ancien président des echevins de la ville d'Amsterdam
François Hemsterhuis's 1769 letter on sculpture and beauty, addressed to the Amsterdam magistrate Théodore de Smeth, printed by Marc-Michel Rey with plates engraved by Jacobus van der Schley for Dutch collectors and connoisseurs of antiquity. Fine outline engravings show fluted urns, toppled sarcophagi and herms among sprays of foliage, oval gem scenes of nudes at an anvil, lettered profile diagrams, and a handled vase banded with sea-horses.
