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French engravers and draughtsmen of the XVIIIth century (1902)

Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904 · London : G. Bell and sons · leaf 145

An illustration from French engravers and draughtsmen of the XVIIIth century, 1902, leaf 145
ed as la probite de Fart. This chargeof something like want of honesty may also be extended to anotherpoint. Daulle and men of his type took no exaft account of thedifficulties they encountered. Should a fold of drapery demandan inconvenient exercise of skill it was fudged without scruple.The pure… … CHAPTER VWILLE AND HIS PUPILS JEAN-GEORGES WILLE ^ was a lad of fifteen when PierreDrevet engraved his Adrienne Lecouvreur. A Hessian by-birth, he came to Paris—as did his friend Georges-FredericSchmidt ^—so young that his training was practically French,and, having assimilated all that the school…

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