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Catalogue of Paintings in Wadsworth Gallery Hartford. With: Catalogue of Paintings in Wadsworth Gallery
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Hartford: Printed by E. Gleason; (and) Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1856. 8vo. 235 x 155 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 inches]. 4 pp. each pamphlet. Folded as issued. Together two separate issues of one of the earliest American painting catalogues published in America. The catalogue lists 139 paintings by such Old Master luminaries at Rubens, Titan, Veronese, and Vernet, and American Masters Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, and. S. F. B. Morse. Also included are sculptures by Canova and C. B Ives. The collection is a mixture of European masters and American artists, including many portraits, mostly of the Wadsworth family, views of Ancient Rome, historical paintings representing American independence and American and European landscapes. The Wadsworth Museum is one of Americas most important cultural institutions. It was founded in 1842 and was one of the first institutions to purchase and import European art into the United States. In addition to paintings, the Gallery hosted the Hartford Public Library and the Connecticut Historical Society and changed its name to the Wadsworth Athenaeum.
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- Catalogue of Paintings in Wadsworth Gallery Hartford. With: Catalogue of Paintings in Wadsworth Gallery
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- (American Art History)
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- Printed by E. Gleason; (and) Press of Case, Tiffany and Company
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- Hartford
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- 1856
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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