[George W. Sheldon, Selections in Modern Art]
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Photographs of the cover and pages from George W. Sheldon's "Selections in Modern Art," held by UNT Special Collections. These volumes contain 125 plates of steel engravings and etchings representing works of recent and contemporary artists of the late 19th century. The etching Cedars by Moonlight by James Smillies, 1878, is one of the earliest instances of an American etcher beginning to differentiate between daylight and moonlight, a distinction easier made in theory than in practice. The cov…
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Date:
November 27, 2017
Creator:
Sylve, Joshua & Merrill, Jeffery
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UNT Libraries Special Collections