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1854181164not identified: not identified 1854. Pamphlet. VG corners bumped and small tears overall age toning to pages soiling on front cover text and illustration is otherwise clear. Off-white pamphlet with black lettering one loose bw illustration in the folded 2 pg pamphlet. Text in English. Includes a bw illustration with the title "Key to the Picture". Text is titled: "Description of 'The Last Judgment' Explaining the 'Key' of Cartoon Drawing." Below title reads "Text- St. Matthew Chap. XXV Verses 31 34 41. Revelation Chap. 1 Verse 7 [not identified] unknown books
1843251136Philadelphia: Biddle 1843. hardcover. very good-. 40 plates plus text illustrations. xviii 132pp. 12mo rebound in modern red cloth; heavily foxed and with a damp stain in the upper margin of the last half of the book. Philadelphia: Biddle 1843. A very good - copy.<br/><br/> Biddle unknown books
1845W8604APhiladelphia: Edward C. Biddle 1845. Joints split hinges starting. Some penciling on preliminaries. Water damage on top half of most pages in the book. Bottom edge has former owner's name in ink. 41 plates of graphics and calligraphy. Original black leather gilt and marbled boards with loss of leather on spine and on tips. Marble paper with piece missing at top of upper cover and on edges. Of interest to students of Peale and of art. . First Edition. Quarter Leather. Poor/No Jacket. Illus. by Author. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. Edward C. Biddle Hardcover books
1838163047Philadelphia PA: J. Wetham 1838. Third edition Improved. Hardcover. Reading copy. Spine gone covers loose ffep loose moderate foxing throughout. Would benefit from rebinding or a clam-shell box. Gilt embossed covers in sewn binding. 95 pp. followed by 5 pp. notices reviews and 1 pp. Prospectus for Peale's next Progressive Drawing Book. Appx. 42 line drawings and caligraphy examples line engraving frontis piece and 9 lithographed full-page plates of script handwriting samples. The title-page of this rare manual has a small paper with "Third Edition - Improved" glued over-top of what must say "Second Edition." A rare example of an early edition of this popular manual which has sections on Drawing and Writing. Light to moderate dampstaining to bottom right page edges. J. Wetham hardcover books
183951427Philadelphia: Henry Perkins; Boston: Perkins & Marvin 1839. First edition 12mo pp. 263 1; original brown cloth gilt-lettered spine light wear and cracks at spine ends and the text with mild foxing and dampstaining; all else very good. This copy inscribed to "D. L. Brainard from the author July 59." OCLC notes "Rembrandt Peale painted over 600 works of art throughout his lifetime. He painted many prominent individuals in American history including George Washington Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun." <br/><br/> Henry Perkins; Boston: Perkins & Marvin hardcover books
1859WRCAM45229New York: Colton 1859. Chromolithographic print: 20 x 30 inches. Receipt: 3 x 7 1/2 inches. Minor toning and soiling small tear at bottom edge. Very good. Large print of Rembrandt Peale's famous painting "The Court of Death" lithographed by Sarony Major & Knapp. Rembrandt Peale was the most accomplished son of the great American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale. The painting "The Court of Death" was the most ambitious of his works full 24 by 13 feet in size. Completed in 1820 it was displayed for a number of years at the Baltimore Peale Museum and then toured to other cities up through the time of the Civil War. <br> <br> By 1859 the painting had been sold to Gardiner Quincy Colton who published it in the present format and sold the prints for the low price of $1. Noted scholar Peter C. Marzio wrote: "Peale himself normally haughty and querulous provided a model of understated endorsement of the lithograph writing shortly before his death to Tristram Coffin on July 3 1860 'The drawing is correct and the Colouring considering the difficulty of the process & its cheapness gives a good general idea of the painting.'" Marzio further adds that this lithograph is among his favorites due to its importance in Peale's brilliant career not only as an artist but as a popularizer of art noting: "The painting is historically important as a very popular touring picture." <br> <br> This example is accompanied by a printed and illustrated receipt for the purchase of one print. The receipt "entitles the holder to an ownership of One Share in the original Painting valued at $25000; which will be disposed of as soon as 100000 Engravings are taken in such manner as they the associated owners shall determine." The receipt has a portrait of Peale on one end and of George Washington on the other. In a contemporary prospectus for the print the publisher touts the obvious truth that more profit could be made by selling 100000 prints at the low price of $1 than could be achieved by selling 5000 prints at $5. In addition to increasing his profit margins Colton clearly hoped to sell more prints based on the idea of buying into a share of the painting. <br> <br> A pair of items illustrating the distinct link between art and commerce. Peter C. Marzio DEMOCRATIC ART pp.51 216. GOLDSMITH 23085 ref. Last COLOR EXPLOSION pp.132-33. Colton unknown books
1865690601865. 29 inches x 24 inches. 29 inches x 24 inches. A Distinguished Politician and Jurist in Maryland and Pennsylvania Neagle John 1796-1865 Peale Rembrandt 1778-1860 After. Tilghman William 1756-1827. Portrait of William Tilghman. Philadelphia c. 1815. 29" x 24" image size. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame small plaque reading "William Tilghman/ Chief Justice of Penna. 1806-1827/ Obiit Aril 30th 1827" to head of frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame gilding slightly dulled otherwise fine. $6000. William Tilghman was a politician and jurist in Maryland and Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Maryland Assembly from 1788 to 1790 and of the Maryland Senate from 1791 to 1793 Chief Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court for Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1802 President Judge of Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia District in 1805 and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court 1806 to 1827. Tilghman ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Pennsylvania as a Federalist in 1811. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802 it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library where this portrait was last displayed was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in 1967. unknown books
