[Rarebooks] FS: 1859 Letter from Cosmopolitan Art Association

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1859 PRINTED LETTER from the Actuary of The Cosmopolitan Art Association 
to Association Secretaries-

DISCUSSION: A printed letter from the Association's Actuary to the 
secretaries, urging them to redouble their efforts to sell subscriptions 
and the accompanying engraving, "The Village Blacksmith". All 
secretaries selling 20 or more subscriptions before April 1st would 
receive a painting worth at least $25; all secretaries selling between 
15 and 20 subscriptions would get a painting worth at least $18; 
secretaries selling between 10 and 15 subscriptions would get a painting 
worth at least $12, and any secretary selling 5 subscriptions would get 
a framed copy of the new engraving, which was after John Frederick 
Herring's famous painting.

The Cosmopolitan Art Association was an ambitious project which lasted 
from 1854 until the outbreak of the Civil War. The Association took the 
prize lottery system used by earlier unions one step further, and 
actually gave Hiram Powers' celebrated statue 'The Greek Slave' away to 
one lucky subscriber during the first Annual Drawing. For $3.00 a year, 
members received subscriptions to a number of literary journals, 
including The Knickerbocker Magazine, Littell's Living Age, The Panorama 
of Life and Literature, Graham's American Monthly Magazine and Godey's 
Lady's Book. The Association also set up a gallery in New York where the 
paintings and sculpture, to be distributed by lottery to members at the 
end of each year, could be viewed.

DESCRIPTION: Printed letter. 7.5"x10".

CONDITION NOTES: Folded, light soil.

PRICE: $65 -

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