Although best known for his individual silhouettes of people, Edouart also cut many family conversation pieces, often complete with the family dog. He also kept scrapbooks in which he pasted his practice and experimental cuttings. These scrapbooks and his archive of work were mostly all lost to the sea when Edouart was shipwrecked off the coast of Guernsey in 1829. Some years ago a salvaged scrapbook came to light in a Parisian bookshop and this is the source of this unique cutting of a spaniel. The silhouette carries a stamp of authenticity within the frame.*The silhouette is beautifully presented in a period reeded frame with corner rosettes and old glass with imperfections.*Finding himself exiled in England with a wife and young family to support, Augustin Edouart opened a shop in Cheltenham selling French curios and artificial flowers but the venture was short-lived and a bankruptcy notice was published in May 1826. He had also tried his hand at creating pictures of...