The artists of America : a series of biographical sketches of American artists : with portraits and designs on steel
The artists of America is an 1846 New York book by C. Edwards Lester, published by Baker & Scribner, collecting biographical sketches of American painters and sculptors for a general readership. Its pictures are engraved steel portraits of men in period dress, rendered in fine hatched lines on cream paper, showing how a single figure can be built from cross-hatching and soft shadow against a plain ground.
