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The Life and Letters of Washington Allston. With Reproductions from Allston's Pictures
by (Allston). Flagg Jared B
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New York: Charles Scrimber's Son, 1892. 8vo. 245 x 180 mm., [9 ½ inches x 7 inches]. xvii, 435 pp. Illustrated with 18 plates. Original publisher's cloth, medallion on upper cover, and title and author gilt on spine. Binding a bit soiled and lightly faded, but sound and attractive. Bookplate of Sturgis Library on front pastedown and library stamp in margins of the title-page and plates. First edition. Standard work on the life and paintings of Washington Allston, one of America's first important artists to study on the Continent and apply the taste and techniques to the American landscape and portraiture. "He accompanied [John] Vanderlyn to France, reveling there in the art treasures Napoleon had accumulated from all Europe, and developed the richness of color that came to characterize many of his paintings." Jared Bradley Flagg was the nephew of Allston who studied under the master along with his brother George W. He was a noted portrait painter and was elected into the National Academy of Design in New York in 1849. Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, pp. 7, 122. (598) .
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- Title
- The Life and Letters of Washington Allston. With Reproductions from Allston's Pictures
- Author
- (Allston). Flagg Jared B
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- Publisher
- Charles Scrimber's Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1892
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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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