John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 126
BITION. 113 We learnfrom Ireland that he completed the term of his apprenticeship in 1718, when abouttwenty-one years of age ; and as he had in all probability been bound for seven years, he could nothave been more than fourteen when he left his fathers house—^a time of life at which few youths… … that The Taste of the Town—engraven in 1724—was the first work which brought him into publicnotice. The Taste of the Town, says Ireland, in speaking of this production, is now entitled The Small Masquerade Ticket, or Burlington Gate, in which the follies of the town are severelysatirised by the…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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