Woman in sacred history : a series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical, and legendary sources / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; illustrated with plates in oil-colors, after paintings by Raphael, Batoni, Horace Vernet, Goodall, Landelle, Koehler, Portaels, Vernet-Lecomte, Baader, Merle, Boulanger and others ; printed by Monrocq, from stones executed by Jehenne, Paris.

Format Electronic
PublicationNew York : Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, [not before 1878]
Description1 online resource (400 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates) : color illustrations.
Supplemental ContentGale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Subjects
Bible--Biography.
Women in the Bible.
Women in literature.
Women in art.

Other author/creatorStowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 compiler.
Other author/creatorGoodall, Frederick, 1822-1904, illustrator.
Other author/creatorBrochart, Charles, 1829- illustrator.
Other author/creatorKoehler, Christian, 1809-1861, illustrator.
Other author/creatorLandelle, Charles, 1821-1908, illustrator.
Other author/creatorPortaels, Jean, 1818-1895, illustrator.
Other author/creatorDelaroche, Paul, 1797-1856, illustrator.
Other author/creatorBaader, Louis Marie, 1828-1920, illustrator.
Other author/creatorMerle, Hugues, 1823-1881, illustrator.
Other author/creatorDevedeux, Louis, 1845- illustrator.
Other author/creatorBoulanger, Gustave Clarence Rodolphe, 1824-1888, illustrator.
Other author/creatorVernet, Horace, 1789-1863, illustrator.
Other author/creatorRaphael, 1483-1520 illustrator.
Other author/creatorVernet-Lecomte, Émile, 1821-1900, illustrator.
Other author/creatorBatoni, Pompeo, 1708-1787, illustrator.
Other author/creatorDubufe, Edouard, 1819-1883, illustrator.
Other author/creatorJiehenne, lithographer.
SeriesWomen's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
General notePublished in twenty-four parts. Wrapper title: Woman in sacred history. Illustrated by modern art.
General note"Sold only by subscription. Twenty-five semi-monthly parts--50 cents each."--prospectus, p. [2] of wrapper, part 1, where the title is given as Woman in sacred history: a series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical and legendary sources.
General noteThe work was completed in twenty-four parts and the title page included in the final number.
General note"Copyright 1873."--verso of title page.
General noteThe copyright was entered by J.B. Ford and Company in 1873; cf. BAL 19479 and 19480. The succeeding firm of Fords, Howard & Hulbert is first listed in the New York City directory for 1878, and was publishing at least until 1887.
General notePrinted in red and black.
General noteEach plate accompanied by printed guard sheet.
General note"Descriptive list of illustrations."--p. 383-397.
General noteIncludes index to the first lines of poetry.
General notePublisher's advertisements on printed wrappers.
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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