- Transactions of the American Art-Union for the Year 1847 (Bound with) Transactions of the American Art-Union for the Year for 1848

NY, G. F. Nesbitt, 1848. Softbound. 136 pp. 2 bw plates at rear (and) 191 pp with 2 bw engravings at rear. This publication contains the listings of the 272 paintings which were distributed at the 1847 annual meeting AND to whom each painting went, and the city that the individual lived in. Also contains a complete listing of paid members, honorary secretaries, and the annual report of the Union. Includes two small engravings, one after Huntington's painting "Mary Signing The Death Warrant of Lady Jane Gray" and the other showing the obverse and reverse of the Allston Medal of the American Art Union. Rare. The 1848 copy has a small engraving of "Cole's Voyage of Life: Youth" and an engraving of the Stuart Medal. It also contains a full listing of the paintings distributed for the year 1848 and to whom that painting was awarded. Not found in OCLC. VG, ex Mercantile Library with oval stamps, lacks outer wraps, soiling. These two issues were formerly bound together, but now are split apart.

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