Gloria Gilda Deak's comprehensive documentation of over a thousand maps, drawings, and urban views, selected from the New York Public Library's notable collection of Americana, makes her work a primary reference tool in the area of American historical prints. As such it will replace Stokes and Haskell's American Historical Prints, which for over half a century has been the chief reference work in this area.
 For more than four centuries, graphic artists contributed to a wealth of woodcuts, engravings, etchings, aquatints, lithographs, and chromolithographs that serve today as indispensable documents in the study of America's history. In Deak's work a continuum of these images allows us to follow the cultural shaping of America from the time of the European discoveries to the end of the nineteenth century. Of particular interest are a German woodcut of New World natives, a gouache painting of Florida Indians in 1564, scenes of the Gold Rush, and nineteenth-century bird's-eye views of American cities.

Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory That is Now the United States

Deak, Gloria-Gilda

Reference

Princeton University Press

Exhibition catalog. Full-page prints of early Americana by the master of aquatint, with critical and biographical introductions and a complete, annotated checklist of the New York Public Library's holdings. Introductory essay by Dale Roylance. Checklist and commentaries by Roberta Waddell and Theresa Balazar. 92 pages, 32 b/w duotones, 9 color plates. William James Bennett (1787-1844), a British-born artist and engraver, was active in the United States from 1816 until his death.

William James Bennett: Master of the Aquatint View

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

New York Public Library

A 16th century view based on mannerist engravings of Theodore DeBry

Discovering America's Southeast: A Sixteenth Century View Based on the Mannerist Engravings of Theodore De Bry

History & Criticism

Birmingham Pub Lib Pr

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