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Conversation pieces; a survey of the informal group portrait in Europe and America

Mario Praz
Professor Praz traces the history of the conversation piece which is am intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions and is a genre which arose in the Low countries, flourished in 18th-century England, and declined with the invention of photography

Print Book, English, 1971
Methuen, London, 1971