I was going through a very small box of little books from Edgerly's library and found a volume entitled (all old English type as it appears) "A METHOD TO LEARN TO PASSIONS"(from text)Proposed in a CONFERENCE on their general particular EXPRESSION. Written in French and iIIustrated with a great many Figures excellently defined by Mr. Le Brun, chief Painter to the French King, Chancellor and Director of the royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. By John Williams, Efq. This book contains a collection beautiful etchings in single page and fold-out pages of wonderful etchings showing the many facial positions and emotions that I think Webster used to create his drawings. He took no care in copying them and what you see are his takes on some truly beautiful etchings. The other thing I found is that I have only one complete autograph, the rest are either just Webster or Papa on books given as Christmas gifts.
I was going through a very small box of little books from Edgerly's library and found a volume entitled (all old English type as it appears) "A METHOD TO LEARN TO PASSIONS"(from text)Proposed in a CONFERENCE on their general particular EXPRESSION. Written in French and iIIustrated with a great many Figures excellently defined by Mr. Le Brun, chief Painter to the French King, Chancellor and Director of the royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. By John Williams, Efq. This book contains a collection beautiful etchings in single page and fold-out pages of wonderful etchings showing the many facial positions and emotions that I think Webster used to create his drawings. He took no care in copying them and what you see are his takes on some truly beautiful etchings. The other thing I found is that I have only one complete autograph, the rest are either just Webster or Papa on books given as Christmas gifts.