Modern artists
Subtitle: a series of illustrated biographies of Sir F. Leighton, bart., P.R.A., Sir J.E. Millais, bart., R.A., H. Herkomer, A.R.A., L. Alma-Tadema, R.A., P.J.A. Baudry, Josef Israels, Adolf Menzel, Carl Piloty, Hans Makart, J.L.E. Meissonier, J.C. Hook, A. Cabanel
By: prepared under the direction of F.G. Dumas.
Publisher: J.S. Virtue & Co.
Published: 1880
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, -- Baron, -- 1830-1896.; Millais, John Everett, -- Sir, -- 1829-1896.; Herkomer, Hubert von, -- Sir, -- 1849-1914.; Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, -- Sir, -- 1836-1912.; Baudry, Paul, -- 1828-1886.; Menzel, Adolph, -- 1815-1905.; Piloty, Karl von.; Makart, Hans, -- 1840-1884.; Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, -- 1815-1891.; Hook, James Clarke, -- 1819-1907.; Cabanel, Alexandre, -- 1823-1889.; Artists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "India paper proofs"--Covers.

Portfolios are numbered on upper boards: sections I-XII.  Boards covered in illustrated blue paper; pages of text have red borders.  Three plates of etchings in each portfolio with the exceptions of sections I and IV: section I has 3 plates of etchings plus 7 facsimiles, section IV has 4 plates of etchings.

Pages [2] and [4] of each portfolio are publisher's advertisements; p. [2] of the first describes the present work and includes a list of the etchings and etchers.

Forms part of the personal library materials in the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection.