The Wallace collection
A 1909 catalogue of the Wallace Collection in London, published by Cassell in London and New York, documenting its European paintings for collectors and art readers. The plates are rotated halftone reproductions of genre scenes: a sporting refreshment piece, a hunt-party gathering, a domestic interior with seated figures, and a tavern Christening Feast signed by its painter. A designer might take their dense, crowded groupings of costumed figures and warm, dark interior lighting as compositional studies.
