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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 385637, member: 56&quot;]It looks like a color lithograph, but may not be.&nbsp; Is this under glare-free glass?&nbsp; That might be obscuring the texture.</p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription on the lower right reads &quot;Aubertin Sculpt&quot; and I don&#039;t see &quot;sculpt&quot; as being applicable to a lithograph.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this is an intaglio print by Francois Aubertin.&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing hand-colored.</p><p><br /></p><p>Francois Aubertin (1773-1821) was a French engraver credited with inventing a new aquatint (or possibly mezzotint) process that closely imitated brushwork.&nbsp; (I see references to both aquatint and mezzotint... but then I also see references to colored lithographs.)</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Google translate):</p><p><i>... The author, François Aubertin, this inventor of a &quot;new method of engraving by washing which perfectly imitates the drawing with a brush&quot; (according to the announcement of the Moniteur) is, according to Mr. Béraldi, &quot;one of the engravers to the most insignificant aquatint. Born in Metz on July 6, 1773, died in Ghent on October 27, 1821, he had worked in Paris for a few years &quot;in the sad way of the end of Debucourt&quot;. More favored than other better-skilled engravers, Aubertin was the subject of a special study published in 1853, by P.-J. Goetghebuer, in the Annals of the Royal Society of Fine Arts and Literature of Ghent </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><a href="https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=http://data.bnf.fr/fr/14979028/francois_aubertin/&amp;prev=search" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=http://data.bnf.fr/fr/14979028/francois_aubertin/&amp;prev=search" rel="nofollow">https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=http://data.bnf.fr/fr/14979028/francois_aubertin/&amp;prev=search</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Aubertin was a contemporary of Gérard and apparently engraved other images by him.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it is an intaglio print by Aubertin, that would date it c1810 (give or take a few years).</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like there&#039;s acid burn from the mat.&nbsp; You would do well to replace it.&nbsp; The stain will affect the value. (The present mat certainly seems to crowd the bottom title, but possibly the print has slipped in the frame.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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