Brown, William HenryPortrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches. Hartford: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1846
Folio (403 x 305 mm). 27 tinted lithographed silhouette portraits, 27 tinted lithographed plates of facsimiles of handwriting; foxing, some offsetting of plates, marginal repair to p. 17, mild damp staining to a few leaves, mainly marginal. Publisher's half brown morocco, cloth boards with gilt device; restoration to outer corner of upper cover, gilt device scratched, general light wear. First edition. An impressive work, of which "Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare" (Harry Peters). All the portraits, except for the George Washington allegorical frontispiece, are based on sketches made from life by Brown, who was widely celebrated for his scissor-cut silhouettes. Brown was born and died in Charleston, South Carolina, but in the interim traveled widely throughout the United States, his fame as a silhouettist gaining him access to many of the country's leading citizens whose profiles Brown took with amazing speed and accuracy. Alice Van Leer Carrick, an authority on silhouettes, notes that rather than any existing original portraits, the present work is "the real memorial to Brown's genius, now almost rarer than any of the silhouettes themselves." Brown prepared the biographical text himself, and the silhouettes were transferred to stone and printed by one of the best-known lithographic firms of the period, Kelloggs of Hartford, CT. The result is a striking historical and visual record, with subjects including John Marshall John Q. Adams, Richard C. Moore, Andrew Jackson John Forsyth, William Henry Harrison, John C. Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, Richard M. Johnson, Joel Poinsett, Alexander Macomb Martin Van Buren, Samuel Southard, Henry Clay, Henry Wise Thomas Hart Benton John Tyler, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Webster, William White Silas Wright, Nathaniel Tallmadge, Felix Grundy, Dixon Lewis, and John Randolph Each portrait is accompanied by plate displaying a facsimile of the subject's handwriting. Scarce in any condition. The present copy is complete with all portraits and plates of handwriting. REFERENCES:Cf. Groce-Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 90; Howes B871 ("b"); cf. Peters, America on Stone 116-117; Sabin 8578
Brown, William HenryPortrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches. Hartford: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1846
Folio (403 x 305 mm). 27 tinted lithographed silhouette portraits, 27 tinted lithographed plates of facsimiles of handwriting; foxing, some offsetting of plates, marginal repair to p. 17, mild damp staining to a few leaves, mainly marginal. Publisher's half brown morocco, cloth boards with gilt device; restoration to outer corner of upper cover, gilt device scratched, general light wear. First edition. An impressive work, of which "Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare" (Harry Peters). All the portraits, except for the George Washington allegorical frontispiece, are based on sketches made from life by Brown, who was widely celebrated for his scissor-cut silhouettes. Brown was born and died in Charleston, South Carolina, but in the interim traveled widely throughout the United States, his fame as a silhouettist gaining him access to many of the country's leading citizens whose profiles Brown took with amazing speed and accuracy. Alice Van Leer Carrick, an authority on silhouettes, notes that rather than any existing original portraits, the present work is "the real memorial to Brown's genius, now almost rarer than any of the silhouettes themselves." Brown prepared the biographical text himself, and the silhouettes were transferred to stone and printed by one of the best-known lithographic firms of the period, Kelloggs of Hartford, CT. The result is a striking historical and visual record, with subjects including John Marshall John Q. Adams, Richard C. Moore, Andrew Jackson John Forsyth, William Henry Harrison, John C. Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, Richard M. Johnson, Joel Poinsett, Alexander Macomb Martin Van Buren, Samuel Southard, Henry Clay, Henry Wise Thomas Hart Benton John Tyler, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Webster, William White Silas Wright, Nathaniel Tallmadge, Felix Grundy, Dixon Lewis, and John Randolph Each portrait is accompanied by plate displaying a facsimile of the subject's handwriting. Scarce in any condition. The present copy is complete with all portraits and plates of handwriting. REFERENCES:Cf. Groce-Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 90; Howes B871 ("b"); cf. Peters, America on Stone 116-117; Sabin 8578
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