Transactions of the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, in the United States, for the Year 1842

Author Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts American

Frontispiece after William Sidney Mount American

Printer Charles Vinten, New York American

1842

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This pamphlet once belonged to the New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis (1893–1902). An etched frontispiece of "The Farmers Nooning," after a painting by William Sidney Mount, advertizes the subject of the large engraving that the Apollo Association chose in 1842 to have made for distribution to its subscriber-members. Thirty-one pages of text summarize the proceedings of a recent annual meeting. Founded in 1838, the organization would merge with the American Art-Union in 1844 and adopt the latter's name.

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Title: Transactions of the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, in the United States, for the Year 1842
Author: Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts (1838–51) (later the American Art-Union)
Artist: Frontispiece after William Sidney Mount (American, Setauket, New York 1807–1868 Setauket, New York)
Printer: Charles Vinten, New York
Published in: New York
Date: 1842
Medium: Illustration: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 9 1/8 × 5 11/16 in. (23.2 × 14.4 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
Object Number: 24.66.336
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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