The home book of the picturesque, or, American scenery, art, and literature : comprising a series of essays by Washington Irving, W.C. Bryant, Fenimore Cooper, Miss Cooper, N.P. Willis, Bayard Taylor, H.T. Tuckerman, E.L. Magoon, Dr. Bethune, A.B. Street, Miss Field, etc., with thirteen engravings on steel, from pictures by eminent artists, engraved expressly for this work
An 1852 New York gift book from G.P. Putnam, pairing essays on American scenery by Irving, Bryant, Cooper and others with thirteen steel engravings after paintings by leading Hudson River School artists, made for middle-class parlor readers. The plates are tonal landscapes—wooded mountains, still lakes, broken foreground rocks and dead trees—useful for atmospheric backgrounds, framing foliage, and finely hatched skies.
