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A handsome volume containing in whole or in part three of the most important early 19th-century American city view books. The first work is a large-paper copy of Childs' VIEWS IN PHILADELPHIA, a quite early example of American lithography, and one of the nicest series of city views produced in the 19th century. The work itself, originally issued in six parts, each with four plates, features engravings of prominent churches, the state house, the Bank of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Mint, and the Academy of Natural Sciences, among other important buildings. A plan of the Eastern Penitentiary was also included in the fifth part, calling for twenty-five plates in a complete copy, as in the present copy. In his MIRROR OF AMERICA, Martin Snyder describes the order of the plates in bound copies as "erratic." The bound order of the plates in this copy is as follows: 1) "Philadelphia from Kensington." 2) "View on the Schuylkill. From the Old Water Works." 3) "State House or Hall of Independence." 4) "Pennsylvania Hospital." 5) "Swedish Lutheran Church." 6) "Friends Meeting House Merion." 7) "Christ Church." 8) "Saints Stephens Church." 9) "Fair Mount Water Works. From the West Bank of the Schuylkill." 10) "Fair Mount Water-works. From the Reservoir." 11) "Widows and Orphans Asylum." 12) "University." 13) "Bank of the United States." 14) "Bank of Pennsylvania." 15) "Girard's Bank." 16) "Sedgeley Park." 17) "First Congregational Unitarian Church." 18) "Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb." 19) "United States Mint." 20) "Eaglesfield." 21) "Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania." 22) "Plan of the Eastern Penitentiary." 23) "Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts." 24) "Schuylkill Canal at Manayunk." 25) "Academy of Natural Sciences." The second work present here consists of the first three parts of Theodore S. Fay's VIEWS IN NEW-YORK. The parts were issued from 1831 to 1834, published by Peabody & Co. in New York and bookseller Obadiah Rich in London. The views were engraved and the text printed entirely in New York, with Rich acting as the London distributor. The Peabody views "offer fascinating glimpses of New York in the 1830's" - Deák. Together with the Bourne series, issued in 1830-31, they are the first series to show a broad spectrum of American urban life. At least seven artists contributed to the series, with the views showing a mixture of topographical scenes and elevations of important buildings. Deák notes the plates are "energetically conceived, with a thrust towards a painterly effect.a combined process of etching and engraving, requiring prolonged and meticulous craftsmanship, was used in transferring the drawings for both the Peabody and the Bourne views to the plate.the two sets of New York views represent American printmaking at a high level." A complete list of the views is given in Deák, but scenes in the present plates are titled, "New York" (a harbor view), "Broadway from the Park," "Bowling Green," "Residence of Philip Hone Esq.," "City Hall," "Navy Yard Brooklyn," "Leroy Place," "Short Tower. East River," "Elysian Fields Hoboken," "City Hotel Trinity & Grace Churches," "Lunatic Asylum (Manhattanville)," and "Merchants Room, Exchange (Wall Street)." The third and last work bound here is entitled THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE, printed in New York in 1830. It is presented as a prospectus for a larger work, but was in fact the only portion of the work ever printed. It contains text by William Cullen Bryant and the plates were executed by Asher Brown Durand, an engraver and later artist of the Hudson River School. Durand made the plates after his own drawings and those of W.J. Bennett, R.W. Weir, and Thomas Cole. Durand, of Huguenot descent, soon surpassed his teacher, Peter Maverick, to become the preeminent engraver of his day, responsible for such masterpieces as the engraving of Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" and the early nudes, "Musidora" and "Ariadne." Just after the.
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