Antique Bookplate Engraving, Drawing Instruction: Facial Features honey colored "Cautiously avoid temptations to extravagance"

"Cautiously avoid temptations to extravagance"

and I particularly love his small-scale oils on cardboard

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Antique Bookplate Engraving, Drawing Instruction: Facial Features honey colored "Cautiously avoid temptations to extravagance"I'm not sure what volume this bookplate engraving was taken from, but it's definitely an old one, and I just found it all these eyes and ears and noses and mouths together pretty striking. Surely it, and two other plates I am listing separately, provided instruction in classical drawing. 11 1 8" x 8 5 8" on nice weight white pulpy paper. Rough top edge from where it was removed from book and a little toning around the edges but overall very good