Catalogue of the Paintings, Marble and Plaster Statuary and Engravings Comprised in the Collection of the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts. . . Together with a Descriptive Sketch of the Institution and its Collections.
Boston: Printed by William White and H. P. Lewis, 1842. Item #672 12mo. 183 x 120 mm., [ 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches]. 24 pp. Stitched as issued in original green printed wrappers. Very good copy. Second edition, revised, originally published in 1841 in 20 pages. The Boston Museum and Gallery opened in 1841 and included pictures, statuary, water colors, drawings, and a natural history museum filled with botanical and animal specimens. It was established thirty years before the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The paintings include works by European masters such as Brueghel, Velasquez, Guido Reni and a number of examples of the work of the Republican radical Salvator Rosi to name a number of the most prominet. The highlight of the collection is Thomas Sully’s depiction of Washington’s Passage of the Delaware which is well described in the catalogue by as well some of the works by Benjamin West, S. F. B. Morse, and H. C. Pratt. There is also a listing of the water colors and engravings in the collection as well as s short description of the Gallery’s cabinet of curiosities. OCLC lists four copies of the 1841 issue, and four copies of this issue at AAS, Harvard, NYPL and the Newberry Library. (672)
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