Art and artists of our time
Clarence Cook's multi-volume survey of nineteenth-century painting, issued by S. Hess in New York in 1888 for American collectors and general readers following European and American art. Halftone and photogravure plates after paintings show costumed single figures, seated interiors with picture-hung walls, classical marble terraces and allegorical garden scenes, useful for soft tonal grounds, silhouetted profiles and period dress.
