Antique Print-CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS-PORTRAIT-Hopwood-c. 1850

Original antique print showing a portrait of Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715 – 1771), a French philosopher, freemason and literateur.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: engraving/etching on wove paper.

Sheet size: 12 x 20 cm (4.72 x 7.87 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Spots and browning in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS-PORTRAIT | RB-A8-03

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in France c. 1850.

Biography engraver: James Hopwood the younger (active 1795-1849) English painter and stipple engraver for magazines and annuals; son of James Hopwood I (1752-1819), trained at the RA schools and exhibited both painted and engraved portraits from 1801. In Paris 1828-1850 (Beraldi).