Old french colour-prints
A 1924 London survey by Campbell Dodgson of eighteenth-century French colour prints, drawing on the work of engravers such as Bonnet, Debucourt, Demarteau, Descourtis and Janinet. The four pictures are reproductions of prints showing rustic genre scenes, a framed portrait of a young woman with flowers, and a crowded outdoor gathering. A designer might take from them the soft tonal layering, oval framing and naturalistic figure groupings typical of French colour printmaking.
