Louis Truchy

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]

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^ Truchy, Engraving after David Teniers the Younger, National Trust collections (NT 592733)
^ Prints by Louis Truchy in the British Museum's collections
^ 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 (2010). 'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-521-81337-2.

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[1] Truchy, Engraving after David Teniers the Younger, National Trust collections (NT 592733)

[2] Prints by Louis Truchy in the British Museum's collections

[3] 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 (2010). 'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-521-81337-2.

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