page_title: Louis Peter Boitard
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Peter Boitard / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sailor's Return (caricature); engraving &amp; etching
context_page_description: Louis Peter Boitard was a French engraver and designer, who worked in London.
context_section_description: He made engravings after Canaletto, Christophe Huet, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, and others. One of his best-known plates represents the Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens, after Pannini. In 1747 he supplied forty-one large plates for Joseph Spence's Polymetis. He engraved the illustrations to John Gilbert Cooper's Life of Socrates (1749), Robert Paltock's The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man (1750), and Richard Owen Cambridge's Scribleriad (1751).
  He executed many vignettes, designs, and portraits, among those one of Elizabeth Canning; and he is said to have been a humorist and a member of the Artists' Club.
caption: The Sailor's Return, 1744.
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