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Portfolio / Philadelphia Sketch Club.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection Oversize NC1070 .P5 1874
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- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Author/Creator:
- Philadelphia Sketch Club.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Art.
- Art--Societies, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 12 (i.e. 11) no. in 1 v. : 55 plates ; 36 cm
- v.1, no.1-11/12; Jan.-Nov./Dec. 1874.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia : Taylor & Smith, 1874]
- Notes:
- At head of title: Philadelphia Sketch Club.
- Each monthly no. comprises 4 to 6 plates, the sketches being by members of the club and other artists and architects.
- "One of the objects of the Portfolio will be testing of new methods of reproduction." The plates are photo-lithographic reproductions by A. Dickes and J. Carbutt.
- Issues no. 1, 3, 5, 8, and 10 each contain one drawing by Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr.
- 1874 was the only year that the Portfolio was published.
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