EHNINGER JOHN WHETTEN Autograph Etchings by American Artists

Sale 1938 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 3,680

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EHNINGER, JOHN WHETTEN. Autograph Etchings by American Artists. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in albumen prints from cliché-verre negatives by george boughton, a. b. durand, eastman johnson, j. f. kensett, e. leutze, l. r. mignot<> and others. Folio, gilt-stamped morocco, corners bumped, backstrip starting; some foxing throughout the volume. New York, 1859

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A rare and early photographically illustrated publication in which the cliché-verre technique is highlighted. Ehninger writes of his intention to "further the interests of American art, by facilitating its diffusion in a form less liable. . . than the inevitable distortions which accompany the best efforts of the engraver."<