Charles Willson Peale / Charles Coleman Sellers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827.

Peale, Charles Willson.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1969]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

Tms BooK is based upon the biography of Charles Willson Peale which appeared in r 94 7as Volume 23, Parts r and 2, of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. Theauthor owes a lasting debt to the Society for its encouragement and very material supportfrom those years to the present. Its readily granted acquiescence in the publication of thisnew version has given him the satisfaction of correcting some errors and omissions, and ofadding much that is new from his own and others' later studies of the Peales and theirtimes. For much aid in the revision, and for the final emergence of the work in a form soappropriate to an artist of the Enlightenment, his thanks are due to Thomas J. Davis, III,History Editor, and to the production staff of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Contents:

A thread of expectation

The lowlands of Maryland

Rachel, and the wonderful letter

Poet and painter

Sons of liberty

The new nobility

“Worthy of liberty …”

Peale of Maryland

“Each soft emotion of the mind”

“All America aflame”

“Really expecting a retreat”

The furious Whig

The road to Valley Forge

“Fort Wilson”

The arch of triumph

Moving pictures

“A world in miniature”

Rachel

“Ye zepher gay”

Philosophical hall

“A tender, beautiful plant”

Mammoth works and wonders

A plain friend

“Great school of nature”

War, and the wonderful garden

“Time flies swiftly like a dream”

The return of Lafayette

“I am young … I am old.

1. A thread of expectation

2. The lowlands of Maryland

3. Rachel, and the wonderful letter

4. Poet and the painter

5. Sons of Liberty

6. The new nobility

7. "Worthy of liberty ..."

8. Peale of Maryland

9. "Each soft emotion of the mind"

10. "All America aflame"

11. "Really expecting a retreat"

12. The furious whig

13. The road to Valley Forge

14. "Fort Wilson"

15. The Arch of Triumph

16. Moving pictures

17. "A world in miniature"

18. Rachel

19. "Ye zepher gay"

20. Philosophical hall

21. "A tender, beautiful plant"

22. Mammoth works and wonders

23. A plain friend

24. "Great school of nature"

25. War, and the wonderful garden

26. "Time flies swiftly like a dream"

27. The return of Lafayette

28. "I am young...I am old"

The Peales (genealogy)

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Illustration credits.

Notes:

A "Based upon the biography of Charles Willson Peale which appeared in 1947 as volume 23, parts 1 and 2, of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS, viewed June 3, 2026).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Bancroft Prize, 1970

Other Format:

Print version: Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980. Charles Willson Peale.

OCLC:

55714907

Access Restriction:

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