West Point
Title: West Point
Date: 1871-1874
Author / Map-Maker / Publisher: William Cullen Bryant
Notes: Hand colored steel engraving from Picturesque America.
Picturesque America was one of the first uniting works after the civil war. It was offered for sale by yearly subscription which included 4 steel engravings along with the text and wood engravings. Later this work could be bound in leather bindings as a 2 volume set.
The work's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States.
The preface described "the design of this publication to present full descriptions and elaborate pictorial delineations of the scenery characteristic of all the different parts of our country. The wealth of material for this purpose is almost boundless."
Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches
Date: 1871-1874
Author / Map-Maker / Publisher: William Cullen Bryant
Notes: Hand colored steel engraving from Picturesque America.
Picturesque America was one of the first uniting works after the civil war. It was offered for sale by yearly subscription which included 4 steel engravings along with the text and wood engravings. Later this work could be bound in leather bindings as a 2 volume set.
The work's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States.
The preface described "the design of this publication to present full descriptions and elaborate pictorial delineations of the scenery characteristic of all the different parts of our country. The wealth of material for this purpose is almost boundless."
Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches
