Musidora

by Asher B. Durand

$3,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Unrecorded proof of a seminal American engraving. 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. Musidora was Durand's first major effort in engraving from an original design. The theme was inspired by 'The Seasons,' a poem by the Scottish poet James Thomson. In the

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