Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, Bowles's polite recreation in drawing , [1779]
- Title(s):
- Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.
- Additional Title(s):
- Polite recreation in drawing.
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed and sold by the proprietor Carington Bowles, [1779].
- Physical Description:
- [1], [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3264839
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Plates dated 1779.
Engraved throughout.
BAC: Original wrappers, as issued.
BAC: [1779] penciled in on t.p. - Subject Terms:
- Animals.Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.Engraving -- Specimens -- Early works to 1800.Wit and humor, Pictorial -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Drawing books.
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