Ariadne

by Asher B. Durand, engraver, - John Vanderlyn, after

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

India paper proof of Durand's most acclaimed and most controversial work. Asher Durand was hailed as the most famous engraver in America and the father of American landscape painting . His bold clean style was an immediate success, and he consequently produced some of the most important engravings in American print history. The most noted achievements of Mr. Durand's burin are his two plates of the nude -- Musidora, after his own design, published in 1825, and the

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