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Author: Charles Lemuel Nichols
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Charles Lemuel Nichols
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Megan Walsh
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385039
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods like steel engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before the widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already established the illustrated book format as central to the nation’s literary culture. In The Portrait and the Book, Megan Walsh argues that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklin’s and Phillis Wheatley’s frontispieces; political portraits that circulated during the debates over the Constitution, such as those of the Founders by Charles Willson Peale; and portraits of beloved fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel Richardson’s heroine Pamela, shaped readers’ conceptions of American literature. Illustrations played a key role in American literary culture despite the fact there was little demand for books by American writers. Indeed, most of the illustrated books bought, sold, and shared by Americans were either imported British works or reprinted versions of those imported editions. As a result, in addition to embellishing books, illustrations provided readers with crucial information about the country’s status as a former colony. Through an examination of readers’ portrait-collecting habits, writers’ employment of ekphrasis, printers’ efforts to secure American-made illustrations for periodicals, and engravers’ reproductions of British book illustrations, Walsh uncovers in late eighteenth-century America a dynamic but forgotten visual culture that was inextricably tied to the printing industry and to the early US literary imagination.
Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Portraits in the Collection of the American Antiquarian Society updates the documentation of the Societys portrait collection reflecting its growth since 1946 when Frederick L. Weis prepared a checklist. This work was undertaken by Lauren B. Hewes. The collection is an eclectic one that represents many aspects of the history of the Society: the interests of benefactors who gave their collections to the Society and the impulse to commemorate the Societys leadership. A number of portraits came into the collection with or because of related manuscript or book collections or were commissioned by the Society and for these there is extraordinary information about the circumstances of their production.
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Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1280
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Author: William Menzies
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Author: Society of Iconophiles
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Category : Engraving
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Joseph SABIN
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385378540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
