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 (1852)
New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 193
t-line, its simple rural aspect, harmonizes most strikingly with the rough,wild mountain scenery in the midst of which it seems to have sprungup, itself a work of nature. And its tower, pointing heavenward, itscruciform outline, its cross-crowned peak, tell unmistakably its holy cha-racter, and… … 1^ THE VALLEY OF THE HOUSATONIC !Y WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. The landscape of Gignoux, engraved for tliis volume, representing a■winter scene, belongs to a class of subjects wliicli lie always treatswell. With him winter is always a season of splendor. The crispsnow lies glittering where it was…
