Bowen, J. T. The United States Drawing Book; comprising elements of the Art of Drawing with the lead pencil, chalk, or crayon, or with water colours; and a series of excersizes, among which are Views of some of the most Interesting Scenery in the United States. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1838. Oblong quarto. 24pp, frontispiece and thirty-six fine lithograph plates. Original cloth, stamped in gold on cover. Very good.
John T. Bowen was an artist and lithographer who operated in New York from 1834 to 1838 and in Philadelphia thereafter, until around 1856. Among his best-known works are the lithographs for John James Audubon’s octavo edition of The Birds of America 1840-44) and the folio plates from Audubon’s The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1842-1848). He also published the lithographs for McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America (1838), as well as a series of 20 views of Philadelphia after J.C. Wild and John T. Bowen’s United States Drawing Book with 37 views of locales in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions. Worldcat locates eleven copies. (#kfk451) $1,200.00