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.
Alternate 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.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates dated 1779.
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:
Wit and humor, Pictorial -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Animals. | Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793. | Engraving -- Specimens -- Early works to 1800.