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Author Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle.

Title New Haven's sentinels : the art and science of East Rock and West Rock / Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and John Wareham.

Publication Info. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 156 pages :) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books.
Note "A Driftless Connecticut Series Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149).
Contents Cover; New Haven's Sentinels; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century; Nineteenth-Century Views of New Haven and Its Sentinels; Gallery One, Views of New Haven from the Rocks; 2. Topography and Geology of the New Haven Area; 3. Silliman's Conundrum: The Role of Basalt in the Geological Controversy between Neptunists and Plutonists; 4. Tectonic Setting of New Haven's Rocks; The Geology of West Rock, East Rock, Pine Rock and Mill Rock; West Rock; Gallery Two, West Rock Paintings; East Rock.
Gallery Three, East Rock PaintingsPine Rock and Mill Rock; 5. The Judges Cave on West Rock; Gallery Four, Judges Cave Paintings; 6. Thomas Cole's Landmark in His Course of Empire Paintings; Appendix One: Minerals and Metals Associated with Connecticut Basalts; Appendix Two: Further Notes on the Artists and Their Art; Bibliography; Webliography; Geologic Glossary; Acknowledgments.
Summary The innovations in art and geology inspired by two classic Connecticut landmarks.
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Subject Geology -- Connecticut -- New Haven Region.
Geology.
Connecticut -- New Haven Region.
Geology -- Connecticut.
Connecticut.
Landscape painting, American -- 19th century.
Landscape painting, American.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject New Haven Region (Conn.) -- In art.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
Art.
Added Author Wareham, John.
Other Form: Print version: Boer, Jelle Zeilinga de. New Haven's Sentinels : The Art and Science of East Rock and West Rock. Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, ©2013 9780819573742
ISBN 9780819573759 (electronic book)
0819573752 (electronic book)
0819573744 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780819573742 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780819573742 (cloth ; alkaline paper)