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Art for the middle classes : America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s
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- Creator
- Cynthia Lee Patterson
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xii, 210 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1604737360, 6612946318, 9781604737363, 1282946315, 9781621031185, 9781282946316, 1604737379, 1621031187, 9781604737370, 9786612946318
- OCLC
- ocn550553904, ocn781323417, ocn681774060
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-202) and index.
- 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