Creating Picturesque America : Monument to

The first comprehensive study of how this remarkable publication reinforced and promoted the way Americans viewed progress, nature, and their own country in the years following the Civil War.

Sue Rainey is a historian of American graphic arts, with particular interest in the artists who drew landscapes and cityscapes for periodical and book illustrations. A member of the American Historical Print Collectors Society

List of Illustrations

ix

Preface

xiii

Part One Fighting the Illustration Wars

Appletons' Journal and the Mission to Civilize

3

(16)

The ``Picturesque'' Subject and Artist Harry Fenn

19

(27)

Oliver Bell Bunce and the Rediscovery of the South

46

(31)

Part Two ``The Most Magnificent Illustrated Work Ever Produced in America''

``A Monument of Native Art''

77

(36)

Reconciling Truth and Poetry in Illustrations

113

(82)

Part Three Reassuring Messages in Words and Pictures

``Delineation by Pen and Pencil''

195

(79)

From Cultural Landmark to Relic

274

(48)

Appendices

A. Biographies of Picturesque America's Artists

293

(16)

B. Two Versions of the Preface

309

(4)

C. Placement of Steel Engravings in the Parts of Picturesque America

313

(2)

D. Notices on the Wrappers of the Parts of Picturesque America

315

(7)

Notes

322

(41)

Select Bibliography

363

(12)

Index

375

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Creating Picturesque America : Monument to the Nautral and Cultural Landscape

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