Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, teal & color illus. paper dust jacket, 219 pp., 476 bw illus. & 18 color plates. More than one thousand marine paintings and drawings are catalogued in this volume. Contains 635 catalogue entries. Lists American, European and Oriental artists. The entries are organized alphabetically. A nicely put together book, and an important resource for anyone researching a maritime artist or painting. The overall condition of this book and dust jacket are Very Fine. There is some foxing visible on the outside edges of the pages when the book is ... View More...
This hardcover book with dust jacket is considered one of the early staples on the subject of ship prints. The contents include 9 chapters: Introduction; The First Ship Prints; Shipping and Engraving; Art and Adventure; Prints and the Ride of Sea-Power; Mezzotint and Aquatint; Early Nineteenth-Century Ship Prints; Merchant Ship Prints; Prints of Fore-and-Aft Vessels and an Index. There are 69 prints shown in either color or black-and-white, with a listing in the front of the book. Binding is solid. The bottom of the back cover and the last half of book show old damp stains on the bottom edges ... View More...
This softcover exhibition catalogue features 35 works of fine art that show American ports and harbors of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. So much work has been focused on the ships themselves that this group showing the ports is a nice variation on a theme. 18 of the works are illustrated in black and white. The exhibition included works from 18 museums, 9 private collections and 3 art dealers. Works by Joseph Blunt, Childe Hassam, Richard Fish, Fitz Hugh Lane and many more are included. View More...
This blue-cloth hardcover book has an aged paper spine label that bears the title of the book. The label has had some losses to the top edge but the entire title remains intact. The binding is solid in the front, and although solid still in the back, there is a split in the paper at the junction of the back cover and the last page. Inside the front cover is pasted the book plate of a former owner that reads "Ex Libris Crandon." Pasted in to the first white page is two-page "Circular of Information" that shows a ca. 1921 photograph of the museum building and lists the exhibit halls, the officer... View More...
