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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 234
self to patriotic engraving and to the reproduction ofscenes of the Revolution. When he published his TableauxHistoriques, in three volumes folio, adorned with nearly twohundred large plates, it was under the Consulate, that is tosay, far from the time when the work was begun. Renouvierassures us,… … Fig. 125,—Title designed by Morcau le Jeune in 1769 for the publisher Prault. under the Directory. The truth is that the artist, in placeof being a cheerful Callot, as might be thought from hismanner of engraving, so like that of the Lorraine artist, was 2i6 The Book. imbued with the emphatic and…
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