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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 406639, member: 56"]It's likely a hand colored engraving. The picture, which is in Dresden, was engraved by William French, c1840, for the Albert Henry Payne company. The engraving was re-struck, c1882, by Selmar Hess of New York. Impossible to tell which version this is. It does seem to be an appropriate size.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an earlier engraving of the same picture, mid-eighteenth century, by Robert Savage, but that engraving mirrors the image.</p><p><br /></p><p>There's a bunch of these images currently on eBay and ranging in price from $8.22 to $176.00.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 406639, member: 56"]It's likely a hand colored engraving. The picture, which is in Dresden, was engraved by William French, c1840, for the Albert Henry Payne company. The engraving was re-struck, c1882, by Selmar Hess of New York. Impossible to tell which version this is. It does seem to be an appropriate size. There is an earlier engraving of the same picture, mid-eighteenth century, by Robert Savage, but that engraving mirrors the image. There's a bunch of these images currently on eBay and ranging in price from $8.22 to $176.00.[/QUOTE]
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