Art year book, 1884 : American art
An 1884 Boston art annual compiled by the New England Institute to survey American art, aimed at collectors and the art-minded public. Its plates are printed reproductions of pen-and-ink and etched drawings: a rotated tree-and-hut study, a seated woman with a fan, an interior with a figure at a table, and a riverside landscape with bare trees, showing loose hatching and dense line work that designers can take as models for tonal shading and sketchy vegetation.
