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Art for the middle classes : America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s / Cynthia Lee Patterson.
- Title
- Art for the middle classes : 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | NC975 .P38 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 210 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Alternative Title
- America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781604737363 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1604737360 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781604737370 (ebook)
- 1604737379 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2010008412
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library