Écran à main / L’Enfance de Socrate

by Print Culture, Women, 18th-Century France

$1,250 · Offered by Martayan Lan

A fine late-18th-century printed écran à main, or hand-held fire screen, charmingly decorated with a Neoclassical color stipple engraving of “The Childhood of Socrates,” a sepia stipple engraving of a putto, and elaborate engraved borders on color paper printed expressly to conform to the idiosyncratic polygonal shape of this item..... More

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