Item #678 Transactions of the Apollo Association, for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States for the Year 1843. American Art History.
A Record Number of 1452 Subscriber’s for the Year 1843

Transactions of the Apollo Association, for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States for the Year 1843.

New York: Printed for the Association, 1844. Item #678

8vo.  218 x 130 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches]. 38 pp. Wood engraved frontispiece, (detached, with piece missing from caption). Pamphlet removed from binding; text foxed. 


Issued annually from 1839 to 1943, this being the final issue of the association.  The wood engraved image is of etching by F. W. Edmonds and depicts a setting of a happy couple before a fire.  The text of the pamphlet includes an annual report, the results of a lottery of 51 works of including artwork by Thomas Cole, John Audubon, J. G. Chapman and A. B. Durand. 


 Not in Imprints and only the copy at AAS is cited in OCLC.  (678)

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Price: $175.00

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