The National portrait gallery of distinguished Americans. / Conducted by James B. Longacre, Philadelphia; and James Herring, New York: under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869.

Herring, James, 1794-1867.

American Academy of the Fine Arts.

Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869, editor.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portraits.

United States--Biography.

United States.

United States--History.

History.

Portraits, American.

Portraits--United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

4 volumes : portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Henry Perkins, 159 Chestnut Street ; New York : Monson Bancroft, 389 Broadway ; London : O. Rich, no. 12 Red Lion Square., 1834-1839.

Notes:

Each volume has added engraved title page.

"These are deeds which should not pass away, / And names that must not wither, though the earth / Forgets her empires with a just decay, / The enslavers and the enslaved, their death and birth."

Plates engraved by A.B. Durand, J.B. Longacre, J.B. Forrest, J.F.E. Prud'homme, E. Scriven, W. Humphrys, T.B. Welch, W. Wellmore, R.W. Dodson, T. Woolnoth, T. Kelly, Gimber & Dick, M.J. Danforth, J. & W.W. Warr, T. Illman, S.H. Gimber, G. Parker, W.A. Wilmer, J.W. Paradise, H. Meyer, Durand & Paradise, G.F. Storm, E. MacKenzie, and J. Gross after J. Trumbull, G. Stuart, A. Robertson, C. Harding, M.H. Jouett, A.B. Durand, H. Inman, T. Sully, J.W. Jarvis, W.J. Hubard, J.B. Longacre, C.B. King, G.S. Newton, R. Fulton, Waldo & Jewett, S. Goodridge, R.W. Weir, C.R. Leslie, C. Ingham, J.B. Martin, Houdon, J.S. Copley, H. Sargent, C.W. Peale, A.U. Wertmüller, G. Cooke, F. Alexander, J. Herring, B. Otis, F.R. Spencer, C. Lawrence, A.B. Rockey, D. Edwin, J.G. Chapman, J. Wood, J. Vanderlyn, R.E. Pine, C. Fraser, T. Stothard, E. Ames, St.-Memin, J.R. lambdin, W. Dunlap, Westoby, B. West, W.B. Cooper, W.G. Armstrong, E.G. Malbone, Conarroe, Douglass, L. Morgan, Isabey, E. Leutze, A. Duval, Frazee, and R. Peale.

Of v. 1-3 there also exists a New York edition. In that edition, Herring is named before Longacre on the title pages, and each title page has four lines of verse following the volume number. The New York edition names the same publishers, but lists the New York publisher first. Vol. 1 of the New York edition was published in 1834.

Vols. 1-3 copyright by James Herring. Vol. 4 copyright by James B. Longacre.

"Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Co. Race Street above 4th."--verso of half-title, v. 1; verso of title page, v. 2.

Vol 2 and 3 published in 1835 and 1836. Vol. 4 has imprint: Philadelphia, James B. Longacre; New York, James Herring. 1839.

Plates printed by Illman & Pilbrow, Miller, H. Quig, B. Rogers, E.W. Rogers, and Butler & Long.

Each biographical sketch has separate pagination.

Each v. has added t.p., engraved.

Imprint varies.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Curwen/McKeen gift, 1973.

Athenaeum has v. 1-2 only.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 24909

Sabin 31577

OCLC:

1891102