Old Master & British Works on Paper

Old Master & British Works on Paper

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 121. A partially dismembered copy of Carington Bowles, The Artists Assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons and in water-colours..., probably 2nd edition, London 1770, bound together with a quantity of illustration prints, many hand-coloured, and some 34 original drawings, mostly in pen and grey ink and brown or grey wash, many of them preparatory, in reverse, for the prints..

Hubert-François Gravelot

A partially dismembered copy of Carington Bowles, The Artists Assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons and in water-colours..., probably 2nd edition, London 1770, bound together with a quantity of illustration prints, many hand-coloured, and some 34 original drawings, mostly in pen and grey ink and brown or grey wash, many of them preparatory, in reverse, for the prints.

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July 6, 03:48 PM GMT

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3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Attributed to Hubert-François Gravelot

Paris 1699 - 1773

A partially dismembered copy of Carington Bowles, The Artists Assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons and in water-colours..., probably 2nd edition, London 1770, bound together with a quantity of illustration prints, many hand-coloured, and some 34 original drawings, mostly in pen and grey ink and

brown or grey wash, many of them preparatory, in reverse, for the prints. 


Various sizes; the sheets 165 by 114 mm

James Lammin, 1792 (according to pen and ink inscription on title page
Gravelot was a prolific designer of book illustrations, and a very successful drawing teacher, especially during his stay in London, from 1732-45.  One of the artist's many stylistically comparable illustration designs is his study for a part of the cartouche of a map, in the British Museum (inv. 1889,0724.90).