Charles Sumner: “With the younger Drevet closed the classical period of portraits in…”

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With the younger Drevet closed the classical period of portraits in engraving, as just before had closed the Augustan age of French literature.

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Sumner marks the end of a classical period in portrait engraving with the younger Drevet, paralleling it with a literary era.

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