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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 39, September 24, 2000, Article 11 FEATURED WEB SITE This week's featured web page is in keeping with the theme of bank note engraving in the 1850's. A description of the Francis W. Edmonds Papers in the William L. Clements Library at The University of Michigan, it describes the fascinating life of Edmonds (1806-1863) who "divided his life between the art and banking worlds and came to be well-known and respected in both.... Edmonds did professional engraving for bank note companies while working as a banker....At the behest of publishers, he also wrote for newspapers and periodicals on art and art exhibitions, and at some point in his life produced an autobiography (unpublished) with many details of the early New York art scene.... Amid all this activity, and with a growing family, Edmonds continued producing 2 to 3 paintings a year.... After a brief withdrawal from professional life, Edmonds took up an old activity which had combined his business and artistic talents, the engraving of bank notes. With Alfred Jones and James Smillie he formed the Bank Note Engraving Company in 1857. The next year the American Bank Note Company began to absorb most of its competition, and the three men sold out under favorable terms. Edmonds became director and secretary of the larger company and contributed original drawings for engravings." The bibliography lists two books with more information on Edmonds: Clark, Henry Nichols Blake. Francis W. Edmonds. American Master in the Dutch Tradition (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988) Mann, Maybelle. Francis William Edmonds. Mammon and Art (N.Y.: Garland Publishing Co., 1977) http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/EF/Edmonds.html Wayne Homren Numismatic Bibliomania Society The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. For more information please see our web site at http://www.coinbooks.org/ There is a membership application available on the web site. To join, print the application and return it with your check to the address printed on the application. For those without web access, contact Dave Hirt, NBS Secretary-Treasurer, 5911 Quinn Orchard Road, Frederick, MD 21704 (To be removed from this mailing list write to me at whomren@coinlibrary.com) Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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