The life and times of A.B. Durand
A biography of the American painter and engraver Asher Brown Durand, written by his son John Durand and published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1894, drawing on the Smithsonian Libraries collection. The pictures are tonal engravings and etchings of nude and pastoral figures in woodland settings, plus a bearded portrait of an older man, showing the 19th-century American landscape and figure work the book documents for art students and historians of engraving.
