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Suite of 226 etchings (of 366) from Deuchar's scarce A Collection of Etchings, 1803 apparently almost all of Vols. 1 and 2 of the 3-volume set.
The engravings are trimmed to the plate mark and mounted on cream paper, from one to five to a page, ranging in size from 4cm x 4cm to 14cm x 19cm. Some etchings are signed Deuchar, a few have the artist's name (e.g., Bega, Ostade, Vliet, Castiglione) and most are dated from 1783 to 1802.
The suite includes religious scenes and beggars by Rembrandt, several heads by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, many rustic scenes by Adriaen van Ostade, and a few after Stefano Della Bella, Hendrick Vliet and Cornelis Bega, five plates from Robert Watson's Five Senses suite, and two plates by Adriaen Brouwer (engraved by Thomas Major). Subjects include tavern scenes, gamblers, drunks and smokers, school scenes, bagpipers and fiddlers, tradespeople, lovers, beggars, ice-skaters, etc.
Deuchar's original designs can be recognized by their subjects in 18th century Scottish… Read More

Folio (38x28 cm.). Bound in two full navy morocco bindings, paneled in gilt and blind. Edges gilt. With two engraved titles bordered in a floral motif and 366 etchings on proof india paper trimmed and mounted on 188 leaves. On the second page Deuchar's trade card with his coat of arms and the text 'David Deuchar, seal engraver to his Royal Higness Geo. Prince of Wales. Edinburgh'.Very good copy, only top 3 cm. leather of spine missing. In handwriting on first free endpaper a dedication d.d. St. Leonards 20-10-1832 to Caroline Lucas Rennie from her husband. B1595 A.S. Marks, Burlington Magazine, (116) 1974 p.853