Chefs-d'oeuvre d'art of the International Exhibitions
This is a late nineteenth-century art portfolio compiled by Edward Strahan and published in Boston in 1884, reproducing engravings after paintings shown at international exhibitions for an audience of art collectors and students. The plates are finely detailed black-and-white engravings of dramatic narrative scenes: a crowded walled city street with mourners and figures in dark robes, a candlelit bedchamber with a fallen figure and ghostly apparitions, and a small sketch of seated figures in a workshop, offering dense tonal modelling and theatrical lighting a designer could study for atmosphere and composition.
