Stephen Alonzo Schoff (1818-1904) - Historic Engraver
Stephen A. Schoff was my great-great-grandfather. He engraved and etched portraits, illustrations and bank note vignettes, almost always copied from paintings, drawings or photographs. I thought it would be interesting to show his work next to the original art, (or at least in the vicinity of the original; Pinterest always reshuffles the images a bit). He's little known today, but have a look at the artists and writers he had associations with, and in many cases knew personally.
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Portrait of a Young Woman, etched by S.A. Schoff, after a painting by Abbott Handerson Thayer, published in "American Art", Koehler, S.R., Cassell & Co., NY, 1886, 7 15/16 x 6 1/2", Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The young woman's parents requested that the etching be published without her name, but we now know her identity: Anne Mumford Palmer.
Sketch for the State Capitol at Albany (Discoverer), William Morris Hunt, oil and graphite on paperboard mounted on Masonite, 15 x 35 5/8", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. One of Hunt's many preparatory sketches for the murals he painted in the Albany State House, which were lost due to shoddy construction of the building.