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America's Paper Money

Note: This work is not available with full-view on Newman Portal but may be accessed at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.24871410 (link verified 1/2024).

[Extract from the Foreword by Mark Tomasko] Dr. Pressly is the first art historian schooled in imagery of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries to do this extensive study of the vignettes on U.S. bank notes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially those issued by the state-chartered banks from 1800 to 1866. Bill Pressly brings an art historian’s background to both interpreting the images and discerning historical influences on the artists who created the vignette artwork. He has an art historian’s eye for the classical heritage of some of the images. Since one of my specialties has been researching and collecting the original artwork, whether it be a print, drawing, photograph, or painting that the engraver used to do his work, it is fascinating to see Dr. Pressly’s discoveries and discussion.