Miniature painters, British and foreign : with some account of those who practised in America in the eighteenth century
A 1903 London and New York reference book by J. J. Foster on miniature painters, British, foreign and American, aimed at collectors and art historians. Its plates are halftone reproductions of eighteenth and early nineteenth century portrait miniatures of women, shown as small oval or round vignettes on plain pale paper. A designer could take the restrained oval vignette layout, the powdered hair and pearl-trimmed dress details, and the soft grey tonal range.
