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003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a xxu
100 1 # $a Tuckerman
245 1 0 $a 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.
260 # # $a New York: $b G.P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway $a London: $b Sampson Low & Co. $c 1867.
300 # # $a xi, [1], [7]-639, [1] p., frontis. (port.), [15] pl.; $c 262 mm.
505 0 # $a [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.
508 # # $a 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.'
510 0 # $a J. Flexner, 'Tuckerman's Book of the Artists', in Amer. A. J., 1:2 (1969), p.53-7.
520 2 # $a 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.
563 # # $a 19th-century brown morocco, upper and lower covers having decorated borders; spine lettered 'Book Of The Artists. - Tuckerman' and 'R.A.'
653 # # $a Artists - Painters - Sculptors - Art - Painting - Sculpture - United States of America - History
653 # # $a Collections - United States of America - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Biography - Art history - Art criticism - United States of America - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Photographs - Photomechanical prints - United States of America - 19th century
700 1 # $a Putnam $e publisher
710 2 # $a G. P. Putnam and Son $e publisher
710 2 # $a Sampson Low, Marston And Company $e publisher
710 2 # $a New York Printing Company $e printer