[Rarebooks] FS: Auguste Edouart -American Antique Silhouettes 1839-44

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TITLE: “Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844”

By Andrew Oliver.
Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the University Press of
Virginia in 1977.

DISCUSSION: Of all the practitioners of the almost-lost art of the
silhouette, by far the most accomplished and prominent was Auguste
Edouart. Edouart worked in Europe, England and America, and made it a
practice to keep duplicate silhouettes for himself which he arranged in
albums, to be used to produce duplicates for customers or as a promotional
tool. In December of 1849 Edouart was returning to England from his final
trip through America when his ship ran aground off Guernsey. In the
ensuing wreck he was able to save only a few of the 50 or so albums of
silhouettes he had cut in America, and these albums were given to his
rescuers, descending in the family until they were purchased by Mrs. F.
Nevill Jackson in 1910. She used them as the basis for her several books
on silhouettes, but in the process she broke up all but one of the albums
and distributed the contents. One album was kept intact, and it is
reproduced here exactly as Edouart assembled it over 150 years ago. Each
silhouette is illustrated with its original pen and wash background, with
extensive modern biographical notes on the sitters. This volume, with
informative introductory material by Andrew Oliver, provides a vivid
glimpse of the complete art of the silhouette as it was accomplished so
long ago.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 8.5"x11.5", 553 pages, 348 full-page black & white
plates, dust jacket.

CONDITION NOTES: Jacket somewhat darkened around the edges, lightly soiled
and with minor wear (please see the photos).  The book itself is fine and
clean.

PRICE: $125 ~

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