Artists

Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit (1763 - 1846). Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit was the business partner of Saint Memin, and would often execute the drawings that were later engraved. Their first advertisement for the "celebrated Physiognotrace of Paris" was issued in 1797 in New York.

Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin). Biography Elihu Vedder was born February 26,...