By: Kennedy, John Barkley ((1863-1938)
Price: $950.00
Publisher:
Ware, Massachusetts (Springfield) and New Haven, Connecticut, 1881-1888
Seller ID: 006515
Binding: Quarter modern calf. Pebbled cloth boards.
Condition: Good
Oblong, 11 by 20 cm. 36 leaves, all portraits, 117 in all, and two still lifes, on rectos. Some portraits are captioned with names and dated, and a few leaves are also signed, with location given. The portraits are clearly by an amateur, or a developing, hand, yet even the most awkwardly executed of these portraits, one can sense, imparts a rather credible likeness of the subject, with a few of the portraits undeniably life-like. All of the portraits render their subjects with serious, rather grim expressions. We can't say whether this reflects a limitation by the artist or was deliberate...
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