American Scenery: Or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature

Nathaniel Parker Willis

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511702792

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Volume 2
Nathaniel Parker Willis

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2015
Print publication year:: 2009
First published in:: 1840
Online ISBN:: 9780511702792
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511702792

Subjects:: American History: General Interest, Social and Population History, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History

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Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–67) came from a publishing family and began his writing career with contributions to magazines. He also wrote poetry and plays but is best remembered as a travel writer. In this two-volume work of 1840, his contribution (described on the title page as 'the literary department') was to provide a narrative for prints from the engravings of William Henry Bartlett (1809–54), the famous British landscape artist, who followed already established tourist routes in the United States to make his drawings. Each of Bartlett's 119 engravings is accompanied by a short essay by Willis, who states in the preface that it is his intention to bring to the reader at home 'at small cost' the sensations of travel which 'those whose lot is domestic and retired' would never be in a position to experience for themselves. The extremely popular work remained in print for thirty years.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

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pp iii-iv

2 - The Catterskill Falls, from below
pp 1-1

3 - The Catterskill Falls, from above the Ravine
pp 2-4

4 - Winter Scene on the Catterskills
pp 4-6

5 - Rogers' Slide, Lake George
pp 7-8

6 - The Gothic Church, Newhaven
pp 9-10

7 - Niagara Falls, from the top of the Ladder, on the American side
pp 11-12

8 - Saw-Mill at Centre Harbour, Lake Winnipiseogee
pp 12-14

9 - Little Falls, on the Mohawk
pp 14-16

10 - Bridge at Norwich, Connecticut
pp 16-18

11 - Undercliff, near Cold Spring
pp 18-22

12 - Boston, and Bunker Hill, from the East
pp 23-24

13 - Mount Jefferson, from Mount Washington
pp 25-26

14 - Mount Tom, and the Connecticut River
pp 27-28

15 - The Silver Cascade, in the Notch of the White Mountains
pp 29-29

16 - View of New York, from Weehawken
pp 30-31

17 - The President's House from the River
pp 32-33

18 - View on the Susquehannah, at Liverpool
pp 34-35

19 - Desert Rock Lighthouse, Maine
pp 36-37

20 - Washington's House, Mount Vernon
pp 38-39

21 - Village of Little Falls, Mohawk River
pp 40-41

22 - Harper's Ferry, from the Blue Ridge
pp 42-43

23 - Barhydt's Lake, near Saratoga
pp 43-45

24 - Fairmount Gardens, Philadelphia
pp 45-47

25 - Sing-Sing Prison, and Tappan Sea
pp 47-49

26 - Washington, from the President's House
pp 49-50

27 - View of Baltimore
pp 51-53

28 - The Exchange, and Girard's Bank, Philadelphia
pp 53-54

29 - Principal Front of the Capitol, Washington
pp 55-56

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