Lessons in likeness : portrait painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 : featuring works from the Filson Historical Society /

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Author / Creator:Pennington, Estill Curtis.
Imprint:Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.
Description:xxiii, 252 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8266068
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Varying Form of Title:Portrait painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1918
Other authors / contributors:Filson Historical Society
ISBN:9780813126128 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813126126 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Cultural chronology. 1802-1835 : westward movement, eastern instruction
  • 1835-1865 : the invention of photography and the coming of war
  • 1865-1918 : exhibitions, collecting, and international trends
  • Artists' biographies
  • Appendix : an index of artists in Edna Talbott Whitley's Kentucky ante-bellum portraiture.