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  Title

  Prints

  Author

  Bartlett, William H., 1809-1854.  

  Publisher:

  s.n.], 1837-1842.

  Pages:

  133 prints :

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Manuscripts and Special Collections.
  

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  • Holdings			Change Display
    Manuscripts and Special Collections
    	Copy	Material	Location
    PRI5584	1	PRINT	N (nocirc)

• MARC Record

  Prints
  Bartlett, William H., 1809-1854.
  

  Author:

  Bartlett, William H., 1809-1854.

  Title:

  Prints.

  Imprint:

  [S.l. : s.n.], 1837-1842.

  Physical description:

  133 prints : b&w, col. ; 12 x 18 cm.

  Note:

  Most, if not all, images measure 12 x 18 cm and generally are printed on sheets measuring 20 x 27 cm. Some sheets originally were in a book; the images on those pages measure the same as above but the sheets measure 17 x 25 cm.

  Note:

  Noteworthy is the number of images showing various forms of transportation, including sailboats, steamboats, canal boats and trains. There are a number of images of canals and locks near rivers and rapids. Many of the scenes of Niagara Falls include tourists.

  Note:

  Copies of five prints from this collection also are in PRI4949.

  Summary:

  The prints in this collection are copies of illustrations drawn by William H. Bartlett (1809-1854), a British landscape artist, and engraved by R. Wallis, J. Cousen, J.T. Willmore, R. Brandard, G.K. Richardson, and others. Bartlett drew the scenes during trips to the United States.

  Summary:

  Many of the prints were published in American Scenery, or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature, with text by Nathaniel Parker Willis. (London: George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, 1840), 2 vol. (Volume 1 of the New York State Library's copy includes a portrait of Bartlett.) There are duplicates of many of the images and there also are hand-colored copies of many of the prints. The collection does not include all the 119 illustrations in the book.

  Summary:

  The subject matter is almost exclusively eastern United States landscapes, with most of them scenes of places in New York State; the imprints date between 1837 and 1842 inclusive.

  Held by:

  MSC

  Subject:

  Transportation--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  New York (State)--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Connecticut--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Maine--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Maryland--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Massachusetts--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  New Hampshire--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  New Jersey--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Pennsylvania--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Virginia--Pictorial works.

  Subject:

  Washington, D.C.--Pictorial works.

  Electronic access:

  Finding aid http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/pri5584.htm