Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s

by Cynthia Lee Patterson

How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular, known collectively as the Philadelphia pictorials, circulated fine art engravings of paintings, some produced exclusively for circulation in these monthlies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617039411
• ISBN13: 9781617039416
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"