Author: Hicks, Thomas , artist (1823-1890); A. H. Ritchie, engraver
Title: Authors of the United States. Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. First Edition of the Engraving
Description: New York: Thomas Hicks, 1866. Handcolored engraving. 23 x 37 inches. Thick browned paper with marginal tears. 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1866 by Thomas Hicks in the Clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the Southern district of New York...Authors are pictured in an open room in a building suggestive of Hellenic temple architecture; statues of Shakespeare, Dante, and Walter Scott[?] are behind them..From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr. the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .

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