Book of the artists. American artist life, comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists: preceded by an historical account of the rise and progress of art in America
Henry T. Tuckerman's 1867 survey of American painters and sculptors, published by G. P. Putnam & Sons in New York for collectors and readers following the young national art scene. The pictures here are square wood-engraved initial letters set in dense foliate grounds, white leaves and tendrils reversed out of black, repeated chapter by chapter and usable as drop caps or ornament tiles.
