| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 210 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Magazine illustration -- United States -- 19th century.
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Magazine illustration. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Art and the middle class -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Art and the middle class. |
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History. |
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Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Periodicals -- Publishing. |
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Middle class -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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DESIGN -- Clip Art. |
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DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- Branding & Logo Design. |
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DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- Illustration. |
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DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- Commercial & Corporate. |
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Middle class -- Books and reading. |
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ART -- History -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Indexed Term |
Multi-User |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Patterson, Cynthia Lee. Art for the middle classes. Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, 2010 9781604737363 (DLC) 2010008412 (OCoLC)550553904 |
| ISBN |
9781604737370 (electronic book) |
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1604737379 (electronic book) |
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1282946315 |
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9781282946316 |
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1621031187 |
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9781621031185 |
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9786612946318 |
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6612946318 |
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9781604737363 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1604737360 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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