Paintings
 
Church
   
Heart of the Andes
 
Cole
   
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
   
Course of Empire
     
Savage State
      The Arcadian or Pastoral State
      Consummation
      Desolation
    Destruction
 
  Voyage of Life
     
Childhood
      Manhood
      Old Age
      Youth
  The Hudson River School

Art and Mechanical Reproduction
 
Daguerreotype
  Daguerreian Society
  Currier and Ives
  Images of Whitman (w/essay)

  Oliver Wendell Holmes on Photography
  Edgar Allan Poe on The Daguerreotype
  Emily Dickinson & Photography
Attractions
 
Lost Museum (Barnum's Museum)
  Grand Moving Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress

Illustrating the Text
 
E.W. Kemble's Huck illustrations
  Kemble's "Illustrating Huck Finn"
  Henry James on Illustration
  Images from Godey's Lady's Book
   
"Frontispiece" (1857)
    "Learning to Write" (1857)
    "The Very Fine Lady" and "The Lady" (1857)
    "The Science of Dress" (1858)
    "The Science of Dress"
    Color Plate #1
    Color Plate #2

Texts
 
Emerson - Art

Contact me at: 
mdesiderio@gc.cuny.edu

                                                                                           

Texts