Book Of The Artists. American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical And Critical Sketches Of American Artists: Preceded By An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of Art In America. By Henry T. Tuckerman. With An Appendix Containing An Account Of Notable Pictures And Private Collections.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/1231

Author

Imprint

New York:: G.P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway, London:: Sampson Low & Co., 1867.

Physical Description

xi, [1], [7]-639, [1] p., frontis. (port.), [15] pl.; 262 mm.

Contents

[Frontis., t.p.] - [Epigraphs] - Contents - Publishers' Advertisement - Plan And Purpose Of This Work - Introduction. Art In America - [Text and plates] - Appendix. List Of American Pictures ... - Index.

Responsibility Note

Most engravings are signed by draughtsmen - A.B. Durand, Robt. W. Weir, Thomas Cole, D. Huntington, F.E. Church, Regis Gignoux, J.F. Kensett, T. Addison Richards, J.F. Cropsey, Jesse Talbot - and by engravers - J. Kirk, H. Beckwith, S.V. Hunt or John Halpin.

One plate carries the publisher's imprint of G.P. Putnam.

The printer is named on the verso of the title page: 'The New York Printing Company, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street, New York.'

References

J. Flexner, 'Tuckerman's Book of the Artists', in Amer. A. J., 1:2 (1969), p.53-7.

Summary Note

The text describes: Early portrait painters; Copley; Trumbull; West; Stuart; Malbone; Vanderlyn; Allston; Sully; Morse; Leslie; Durand; W.E. West; Weir; Chapman; Cole; Inman; Greenough; Powers; Page; Elliot; Crawford; Huntington; Leutze; Brown; Palmer; Church; Bierstadt; Portraiture, Genre and Historical Painters; Landscape Painters; Sculptors.

The frontispiece is an engraved portrait of D. Huntington. Four other plates (photographs) show portraits of artists; the rest (engravings) show landscapes.

Binding Note

19th-century brown morocco, upper and lower covers having decorated borders; spine lettered 'Book Of The Artists. - Tuckerman' and 'R.A.'

Subject

Artists - Painters - Sculptors - Art - Painting - Sculpture - United States of America - History
Collections - United States of America - 19th century
Biography - Art history - Art criticism - United States of America - 19th century
Pictorial works - Photographs - Photomechanical prints - United States of America - 19th century

Contributors