Catalogue of modern drawings, etchings and engravings ... modern etchings, &c. ... the property of Lieutenant Hollins, plates ... the property of F. Hughes, Esq., from the celebrated collection of Charles Stokes, Esq. ..
This is an 1917 London auction catalogue from Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge listing modern drawings, etchings and engravings from the collections of Lieutenant Hollins, F. Hughes and Charles Stokes for prospective bidders and collectors. The plates show oval genre scenes, a drawn architectural tomb monument, a pastoral woodland group with a numbered plate, and a classical figure bearing a garland over a rural scene, offering designers examples of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century printed compositions with soft tonal modelling and dramatic cropping.
