Louis Truchy Explained

Louis Truchy (possibly 1731 – 1764^[1]) was a French engraver.^[2] He and Antoine Benoist were taken on by the English painter Joseph Highmore to engrave his Pamela series in 1743.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/592733 Truchy, Engraving after David Teniers the Younger
2. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?people=104953&peoA=104953-2-60 Prints by Louis Truchy in the British Museum's collections
3. Book: Keymer . Thomas . Keymer . Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College Oxford and Lecturer in English Language and Literature Thomas . Sabor . Peter . Sabor . Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Professor of English Peter . 'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland . 2010 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-81337-2 . 143 . en.