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Heath, Dudley · 1905 · London, Methuen and co · 36 pictures

Miniatures by Dudley Heath, published in London by Methuen and Co in 1905, is a practical handbook on miniature painting, written for artists and collectors interested in the small portrait form. Its pictures are line-engraved oval portrait medallions of men and women in late seventeenth to early nineteenth century dress, with curled hair, ruffles, bonnets and cravats, arranged in grouped clusters on the page. A designer could borrow the oval vignette layout and numbered grouping of portraits for period-style framing or heritage graphics.

Miniature painting

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