[Paris], [c. 1790-1800].
[Écran à main] / [L’Enfance de Socrate].
A fine late-18th-century printed écran à main, or hand-held fire screen, charmingly decorated with a Neoclassical color stipple engraving of “The Childhood of Socrates,” a sepia stipple engraving of a putto, and elaborate engraved borders on color paper printed expressly to conform to the idiosyncratic polygonal shape of this item..... More