American Scenery, Vol. 1
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Preface
2:53 -
American Scenery
8:39 -
Niagara Falls, from the Ferry
5:10 -
View from West Point
4:56 -
Trenton Falls, View down the Ravine
6:37 -
View from Mount Holyoke
6:29 -
The Outlet of Niagara River
6:30 -
The Palisades, Hudson River
5:49 -
The Rapids above the Falls of Niagara
5:47 -
Saratoga Lake
6:04 -
The Colonnade of Congress Hall, Saratoga Springs
5:09 -
Albany
5:49 -
Crow’s Nest, from Bull Hill, West Point
6:45 -
View below Table Rock
5:41 -
Lake Winipiseogee
6:16 -
Kosciusko’s Monument
5:49 -
The Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, with the Tower
5:54 -
The Narrows, at Staten Island
6:32 -
View of the Capitol at Washington
6:39 -
View of the Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga
5:14 -
View from Fort Putnam
5:55 -
View of State Street, Boston
9:04 -
Niagara Falls, from Clifton House
6:38 -
View from Hyde Park
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Village of Sing-Sing
6:25 -
View from Ruggle’s House, Newburgh
5:34 -
Descent into the Valley of Wyoming
6:22 -
Boston, from Dorchester Heights
7:44 -
View of Faneuil Hall, Boston
6:55 -
New York Bay, from the Telegraph Station
5:19 -
Peekskill Landing
6:36 -
Lighthouse near Caldwell Landing
6:56 -
Harper’s Ferry, from the Potomac Side
11:24 -
Caldwell, Lake George
7:35 -
Centre Harbour, Lake Winipiseogee
6:51 -
Yale College, at New Haven
6:10 -
Willey House—White Mountains
5:07 -
Battle Monument, Baltimore
6:03 -
Forest Scene on Lake Ontario
5:58 -
Viaduct on the Baltimore and Washington Rail-road
8:03 -
The Indian Falls near Coldspring
6:09 -
Columbia Bridge, over the Susquehanna
5:34 -
The Genessee Falls, Rochester
5:38 -
The Ferry at Brooklyn, New York
5:03 -
Rail-road to Utica, Little Falls
10:06 -
Utica & The Landing, on the American side, Falls of Niagara
6:02 -
View From Mount Washington
5:27 -
Mount Washington, and the White Hills
5:49 -
The Park and City Hall, New York
6:17 -
The Two Lakes, and the Mountain House on the Catskills
4:19 -
Trenton High Falls
5:06 -
The Valley of the Shenandoah, from Jefferson’s Rock
6:57 -
Lockport, Erie Canal
8:20 -
The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon
5:12 -
Black Mountain, Lake George
7:21 -
Valley of the Connecticut, from Mount Holyoke
5:13 -
View on the Erie Canal, near Little Falls
6:12 -
Hudson Highlands, from Bull Hill
6:19 -
Villa on the Hudson, near Weehawken
6:47 -
View of Meredith, New Hampshire
6:46 -
Ballston Springs
5:56 -
The Narrows, from Fort Hamilton
5:44 -
The Notch House, White Mountains
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Wilkesbarre, Vale of Wyoming
5:47 -
Squawm Lake, New Hampshire
6:29 -
Sabbath-Day Point, Lake George
7:46
American Scenery, Vol. 1 (1840) is a public domain work.
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American Scenery, Volume 1 is the first volume of a famous illustrated book by Nathaniel Parker Willis, published in two volumes in 1840. The book combined Willis's descriptive prose with steel engravings of American landscape views drawn by the English topographical artist William Henry Bartlett, and was one of the most successful illustrated books published about America in the early Victorian period.
Willis (1806-1867) was one of the most successful American magazine writers of the early and mid nineteenth century. He had built a career as a travel writer, magazine editor, and society columnist whose work appeared widely in American and British periodicals. His prose was light, observant, and pitched at the educated middle-class audience that the new mass-circulation magazines were developing across the period.
The American Scenery project began when Bartlett toured the United States in 1836 to produce drawings for what was conceived as a topographical celebration of American landscape. The engravings cover the major scenic locations that Victorian taste considered most worth illustrating. The Hudson River valley and the Catskills feature prominently. Niagara Falls receives extended treatment across several engravings. Various New England scenes appear, along with views from the Southern states and from the rapidly developing Western country.
Willis wrote the accompanying text in his characteristic light and informed style. The prose combines straightforward topographical description with historical background, with anecdotes about the various places and the people associated with them, and with the kind of cultivated observation that Willis brought to all his travel writing. The whole production was aimed at the British middle-class audience that wanted to know more about America and at the substantial American audience that liked to see its own country presented with European production standards.
The book remains one of the most important visual records of pre-Civil War American landscape. Many of the scenes Bartlett drew have since been transformed by industrial development and urban expansion, and the engravings preserve a now-vanished American countryside. For readers interested in early Victorian American travel literature or in the visual history of nineteenth-century America, the book is essential.
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