A technical dictionary of printmaking, André Béguin.
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keepsakes
Keepsakes are "friendship souvenirs" which used to be given at Christmas. Usually they were little albums containing poems illustrated with incised steel cuts. The fashion for "keepsakes" originated in England and was introduced in France around 1825. These albums became particularly fashionable during the romantic period. In France one speaks of "keepsakes portraits" when the subject is a beautiful and slightly melancholy woman's face.
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