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"The Courier" & "The Castle Gate"
A rare pair of extraordinary silhouettes from Edouart's 19th century personal book of genre silhouettes. On page 41 of her book "Silhouettes: A History and Dictionary of Artists", Emily Nevill Jackson (Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson) refers to this outstanding folio, "I have Edouart's Album of subject pictures in little, besides ten volumes of his named and dated portraits containing 12,000 portraits." ...
Two Ladies in their Best Room
Two Ladies in their Best Room
Stunning conversation silhouette by Augustin Edouart on one of the best watercolor backgrounds I've seen from him.The lady on the left is lounging with her foot on a cricket stool with claw feet and a tufted upholstered top. Her arm (possibly with imbecile sleeve) rests on the back of her Sheraton period chair. She has just laid her book down so her standing friend can show off a pencil drawing of...
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