John Rubens Smith
By: [Edward S. Smith]
Published: 1930
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849.; Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852.; Art -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.; Artists -- Middle Atlantic States -- Biography.; Art, Modern -- 19th century -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Typescript (photocopy).
Photocopy of handwritten cover letter from the author bound in at front.
"The title of the whole manuscript is John Raphael Smith, his family and descendants: John Rubens Smith, John Rowson Smith, and others"--Cover letter.
Small ink stamp on cover letter and t.p.: E.S. Smith, 129 A St., N.E., Washington, D.C.
Text includes brief biographies of artists who were John Rubens Smith's students, p. 57-62.
Pages 87-140 include a chronology of John Rubens Smith's life and work and lists of his drawings, mezzotints, portrait engravings, watercolor portraits, and "magazine plates," as well as his works held in Boston and Philadelphia and his works as a student at the Royal Academy in London and later in New England and the Middle Atlantic.
Background on artist and engraver Saint-Mémin and his portrait of John Rubens Smith, p. 142-144.
"Proposals for publishing by subscription, series of instruction in the art of drawing, The Juvenile Drawing-Book, being the rudiments of the art ...," p. 147-149.
Original typescript replaced by microfilm under call number Microfilm 98/9 (N).