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The home book of the picturesque: or, American scenery, art, and literature comprising a series of essays by Washington Irving, W.C. Bryant, Fenimore Cooper ... etc., with thirteen engravings on steel, from pictures by eminent artists
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Oe.463 (Quarto)
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape painting--United States.
- Landscape painting.
- Engraving.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- [7]-8 p., 2 leaves, 188 p. : 13 plates (incl. ill.) ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : G.P. Putnam, 1852.
- Contents:
- Scenery and mind. By E.L. Magoon
- View near Rondout
- American and European scenery compared. By J.F. Cooper
- The Catskill Mountains. By W. Irving
- A dissolving view. By Miss Cooper
- The scenery of Pennsylvania. By B. Taylor
- The Highland Terrace, above West Point. By N.P. Willis
- Wa-wa-yan-dah Lake, New Jersey
- Over the mountains. By H.T. Tuckerman
- West Rock, New Haven. By M.E. Field
- The Erie Railroad. By B. Taylor
- The Church of the Holy Innocents, West Point
- The Valley of the Housatonic. By W.C. Bryant
- The Adirondack Mountains. By A.B. Street
- Schroon Lake
- Art in the United States. By G.W. Bethune.
- Notes:
- Added t.-p., engr., included in list of plates.
- Published in 1868, with some changes and additions, under title: A landscape book.
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