03556nam 2200685Ia 450 991045989560332120200520144314.01-62103-118-71-282-94631-597866129463181-60473-737-9(CKB)2670000000069458(EBL)631707(OCoLC)681774060(SSID)ssj0000412127(PQKBManifestationID)11306231(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412127(PQKBWorkID)10365607(PQKB)10055384(StDuBDS)EDZ0000203682(MiAaPQ)EBC631707(OCoLC)781323417(MdBmJHUP)muse13529(Au-PeEL)EBL631707(CaPaEBR)ebr10425154(CaONFJC)MIL294631(EXLCZ)99267000000006945820100225d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrArt for the middle classes[electronic resource] America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s /Cynthia Lee PattersonJackson [Miss.] University Press of Mississippi20101 online resource (231 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-736-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 illusAmerica's illustrated magazines of the 1840sMagazine illustrationUnited States19th centuryArt and the middle classUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPeriodicalsPublishingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryMiddle classBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Magazine illustrationArt and the middle classHistoryPeriodicalsPublishingHistoryMiddle classBooks and readingHistory741.6/52097309034Patterson Cynthia Lee916314MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459895603321Art for the middle classes2054219UNINA