American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
A survey of contemporary American painters written by George William Sheldon and published by D. Appleton in New York in 1879, aimed at art-buying and art-reading audiences who wanted the studio paintings of the day reproduced at home. The eighty-three wood engravings translate oil landscapes into fine tonal hatching: misty river valleys, mountain gorges with tiny figures, palm-fringed tropical shores, and dark tree masses silhouetted against pale open skies, useful for atmospheric backgrounds, gradient skies, and foliage texture.
