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Art for the middle classes America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s

Title: Art for the middle classes [electronic resource] : America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s / Cynthia Lee Patterson.
Author: Patterson, Cynthia Lee.
Publication: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.

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Description

1 online resource (xii, 210 p., 8 p. of plates) : ill. (some col.)

Uniform Title

Art for the middle classes (Online)

Alternative Title

Art for the middle classes (Online)
America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s

Subject

Magazine illustration > United States > 19th century
Art and the middle class > United States > History > 19th century
Periodicals > Publishing > History > United States > 19th century
Middle class > Books and reading > History > United States > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-202) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction. The Philadelphia pictorials and American visual culture in the 1840s -- "From the burin of an American artist": artistic production in the 1830s and 1840s -- "Superior embellishments" : innovations to the graphic arts in the Philadelphia pictorials -- "The fluttering host of many-colored competitors" : regional imitators in the Northeast, West, and South -- "Illustration of a picture" : American authors and the magazine embellishments -- "Engravings from original pictures" : competing for audiences and original art -- "A mezzotint in every number": battling for embellishers, battling over art -- Conclusion. The ascendancy of New York, and market stratification.

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