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Samuel Valentine Hunt

PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN, 1872

Description

Maker

  • Unknown
  • T.B. Thorpe, author
  • F.G. De Fontaine, author
  • W.V. Thompson, author
  • Samuel Valentine Hunt, b. 1803, British
  • George William Bagby, author
  • Oliver Bell Bunce, author
  • Constance Fenimore Woolson, author
  • William Wellstood, 1819-1900, American
  • L.J.G. Runkle, author
  • Sallie A. Brock, author
  • James D. Smillie, 1833-1909, American, author
  • William Cullen Bryant, American, author
  • Robert Hinshelwood, 1812-ca. 1875, American
  • J.R. Thompson, author
  • T.M. Clarke, author
  • D. Appleton & Company, publisher
  • Robert Carter, author
  • John Esten Cooke, author
  • Susan N. Carter, author
  • David Hunter Strother, author
  • R.E. Garczynski, author
  • Edward Paxman Brandard, 1819-1898, British
  • J.C. Carpenter, author
  • J.E. Ringwalt, author

Culture

British

Title

PICTURESQUE AMERICA, OR THE LAND WE LIVE IN

Year

1872

Medium

steel engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • steel engraving

Supports

  • wove:medium weight, off-white, plowed gold fore-edge.

Dimensions

33 x 26.7 x 7 cm (13 x 10 1/2 x 2 13/16 inches)

Identification

State

Volume: I

Place

New York

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Books

Credit

Gift of George Pepperell

Object Number

1989.117.1

Use

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