[Sammelband] Portrait Painting : Old Articles
by Various authors and artists
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
-
Williamsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Private Printing. Very Good-. 1880s-1890s. Unique Copy. Hardcover. All extremities rubbed. Larger, rubbed area of the spine at the tail. Paper covers rubbed at corners. Overall foxing to the free endpapers. Joints cracked, but holding well. Very occasional, light pencil notations.; This is a Sammelband that assembles twenty-four articles about Victorian portrait painters and photographers, all articles removed from 1880s through 1890s English periodicals, then custom bound into a book. The article titles are Beauty, Portraits of Women; Famous Portrait Painters; Carolus Duran: A Painter of Fair Ladies; The Poet With the Mandolin; John March, Southerner; Thomas Gainsborough M. A.; Mary Moser, A Forgotten Royal Academician; John Singleton Copley R. A.; Cole's Old English Masters; Some Portraits of J. W. M. Turner; Concerning Painters in Little (miniature); Gilbert Stewart's Portraits of Women; How Celebrities Have Been Photographed; With Constable; Illustrated Interviews: Mr. T. Sidney Cooper, R. A.; The Aesthetes; Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart.; Sir John Millias, Bart., P. R. A.; Laurens Alma-Tadema, R. A.; Britain's Battle Painter: Lady Butler and Her Art; A Popular Painter: Mr. Frank Dicksee, R. A.; A Talk With Val Prinsep, R. A.; Rossetti's Influence in Art; Autobiographical Notes: Franz von Lenbach. Pagination is erratic, as a given article may start at one page and continue at a later page in the original periodical. Approximately 200 pages, all edges of the text block lightly spattered in blue. Bound in half, blue linen with blue and white marbled paper over boards. This Sammelband is a unique copy, assembled by and bound for someone focused on portraiture. The previous owner's signature Mary H. Sellar is in pencil to the front pastedown. This is possibly Mary Hoyt Sellar (1864-1952, wife of Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864-1939) Victorian era, British-American, prolific painter of landscapes and portraits. Mary Hoyt Seller was the sitter for some portraits painted by Dawson-Watson. Externally and internally clean, and in at least Very Good- condition.; Monochrome; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated .
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Details
- Bookseller
- 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1072
- Title
- [Sammelband] Portrait Painting : Old Articles
- Author
- Various authors and artists
- Illustrator
- Various artists
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- Unique Copy
- Publisher
- Private Printing
- Date Published
- 1880s-1890s
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Art History, Victorian Art, Sammelband, Portraits
- Bookseller catalogs
- Portrait Painting;
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