Address, delivered before the American Academy of Fine Arts / by William Beach Lawrence
An 1825 address by William Beach Lawrence, published in New York by James V. Seaman, delivered before the American Academy of Fine Arts and concerned with the history of art. The two plates are a profile engraving of a bald, bearded older man in a cloak, and a woodcut of a ruined colonnaded Doric temple with fallen blocks in the foreground. The stippled engraved portrait suggests dignified formal sitters for period-style frames, while the cross-hatched temple view offers a model for classical ruins and architectural decay in editorial or heritage design.
