French engravers and draughtsmen of the XVIIIth century (1902)
Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904 · London : G. Bell and sons · leaf 249
olas Dorigny to engrave thecartoons at Hampton Court, began upon his own account a set of the Duke ofMarlboroughs battles—suggested probably by that which appeared in Holland in1728. He took a shop and sold prints, sending for Gravelot and Scotin to work forhim (Walpoles Anecdotes, ed. 1862, t.… … but all this work, by which he got his bread, gave him no oppor- Gravelottunity of distindion and is to us small source of pleasure. E^sen In England Gravelot remained about thirteen years, engravingand painting and making an immense quantity of drawings for otherengravers. His work at that date…
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