A French School Engraving by Alphonse Leroy after Paolo Veronese; Head of a Black Boy c.1870 antiques which stretched across bays

which stretched across bays

The top has some scratches and loss to its edges

This example has a little of the Gothic revival to it

Traditionally there are two types of puppets: string puppets and palm puppets

the plate is in good overall order with some creases that would eventually drop out and some light fading to the paper

A French School Engraving by Alphonse Leroy after Paolo Veronese; Head of a Black Boy c.1870 antiques which stretched across baysOrigin: Italian Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 17. 75 Width: 13. 75 The French school engraving by Alphonse Leroy (1820 1902), After Paolo Veronese (1528 1588), showing the head of a black boy, with both artist and engraver named under, left and right respectively and with the Louvre impress stamp to lower centre, presented in a glazed ebonised frame and surviving from the third quarter of the nineteenth century.