Engravings from the Balch collection [manuscript], 1930.

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Engravings from the Balch collection [manuscript], 1930.

The collection contains an engraving of an old man in Elizabethan clothes; three sentimental scenes engraved by deLaunay after paintings by Fragonard; and "Fortune contraire" by an unknown artist.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7935617

University of Virginia. Library

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Fragonard, Jean-Honoré

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Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-1927

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Amateur artist. From the description of Paintings of Edwin Swift Balch [manuscript], 1871-1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647818232 Edwin Swift Balch was born in 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of the distinguished lawyer Thomas Balch. He was educated in France and Germany and studied at Harvard University. Although qualified as a lawyer, Balch chose to travel around the world and became an authority on polar history and exploration. ...