1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459895603321

Autore

Patterson Cynthia Lee

Titolo

Art for the middle classes [[electronic resource] ] : America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s / / Cynthia Lee Patterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2010

ISBN

1-62103-118-7

1-282-94631-5

9786612946318

1-60473-737-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

741.6/52097309034

Soggetti

Magazine illustration - United States - 19th century

Art and the middle class - United States - History - 19th century

Periodicals - Publishing - United States - History - 19th century

Middle class - Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. The Philadelphia pictorials and American visual culture in the 1840's -- "From the burin of an American artist": artistic production in the 1830's and 1840's -- "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.

Sommario/riassunto

How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular, known collectively as the Philadelphia



pictorials, circulated fine art engravings of paintings, some produced exclusively for circulation in these monthlies, to an eager middle-class reading audience. These magazines achieved print circulations far exceeding those of other print media (such as illus

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396758303316

Autore

Abercromby David <d. 1701 or 2.>

Titolo

Academia scientiarum, or, The academy of sciences [[electronic resource] ] : being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on every particular science : in English and Latine / / by D. Abercromby .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by H.C. for J. Taylor, L. Meredith, T. Bennet, R. Wilde ..., 1687

Descrizione fisica

[24], 179, [12] p

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Philosophy

Science

Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

English and Latin on opposite pages.

First ed. Cf. Wing.

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018