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Title A landscape book [microform] / by American artists and American authors ; sixteen engravings on steel, from paintings by Cole, Church, Cropsey, Durand, Gignoux, Kensett, Miller, Richards, Smillie, Talbot, Weir.

Imprint

New York : G.P. Putnam, 1868.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets	LAC 14558.	---	Available

Description	108 p. : ill., plates.
Series	Library of American civilization ; LAC 14558.
Note	Added t.-p., engraved.
	The essays, with the exception of III, V, VIII, XI, and XV, were written for this volume in its original shape, as "The book of the picturesque."--Publishers.
Contents	I. Cooper. English and American scenery compared -- II. Irving. The Catskill Mountains -- III. Bryant. Catterskill Falls -- IV. Taylor, B. The mountains -- V. Street. The Adirondack Mountains -- VI. Bryant. Valley of the Housatonic -- VII. Schroon Lake -- VIII. Whittier. By the lake-side -- IX. Taylor, B. Scenery of Pennsylvania -- X. Wa-wa-yan-dah Lake, N.J. -- XI. Bryant. A summer ramble -- XII. Field, M.E. West Rock, New Haven -- XIII. Tuckerman. Over the mountains -- XIV. Church of Holy Innocents, West Point -- XV. Hillard, G.S. Lake George -- XVI. View near Rondout -- XVII. Taylor, B. Erie railroad.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfich ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 14558)
Subject	Landscape painting
	Painting, American.
	United States -- Description and travel.