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An example of work by William H Bartlett
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  William Henry Bartlett, a prolific illustrator, made four visits to the United States between 1836 and 1852. Based on the earlier of these visits, he created a series of views that were published around 1840. They were titled American Scenery, with a text by Nathaniel P. Willis.
American Scenery contains a number of views of the mountains, lakes, and waterfalls of the White Mountains. Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be used in engravings. His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known.
Bartlett died on board a French ship returning from a voyage to the Orient. Engravings based on Bartlett's views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America, continued by B. B. Woodward and published c. 1856.
Source:
Groce and Wallace, Dictionary of Artists
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Biography from Butler Institute of American Art:
| | English draughtsman William Henry Bartlett was active in the Near East, Continental Europe and North America. He was a prolific artist and an intrepid traveler. His work became widely known through numerous engravings after his drawings published in his own and other writers’ topographical books. His primary concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and by means of established pictorial conventions to render ‘lively impressions of actual sights’, as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). |
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