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Prospectus of Delaplaine's National Panzographia, for the reception of the portraits of distinguished Americans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 43829.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824. Delaplaine's repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished American characters.
- Delaplaine, Joseph.
- National Panzographia of the Portraits of Distinguished Americans.
- Portrait painting.
- Portraits, American--Exhibitions.
- Portraits, American.
- Art museums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Art museums.
- Publishers and publishing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Periodicals--Publishing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Periodicals.
- Periodicals--Publishing.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Prospectuses.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 16 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by William Brown, Prune Street., 1818.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "In proposing to the public his plan for the institution of the Panzographia ... the proprietor feels that he is promoting the glory of his country, by holding out new and powerful inducements to the genius of the closet and of the field."--p. 10.
- Signed on p. 16: Joseph Delaplaine. Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1818.
- "The third half volume of 'Delaplaine's repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished Americans' is now published ... The fourth half volume will positively be published in April 1819 ... Delaplaine's National Panzographia of the Portraits of Distinguished Americans, will be open for visiters [sic], in Chesnut next to the corner of seventh Street, on the first day of January, 1819."--p. 16.
- "To the readers of the Repository in the western states. The great risks and numerous expences attendant upon the transportation of the Repository to the western states, together with the inconveniences and losses to which the proprietor has been subjected ... He has determined henceforward to discontinue the practice of sending out the Repository to the western states. ..."--p. [4] of wrapper.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 43829).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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