Although best known for his well-cut silhouettes of people, Augustin Edouart also cut family conversation pieces that often included 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. Edouart has really caught the attentive stance of the dog as he awaits his owner''s instruction. The silhouette carries a stamp of authenticity within the frame and on the backing board.The silhouette is presented in a period giltwood frame with a piecrust edge and inner beaded border.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 not...