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.

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Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, Bowles's polite recreation in drawing , [1779]

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
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:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1470 B78 1779
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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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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