Picturing Victorian America

by Finlay, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9781881264101
• ISBN10: 1881264106
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-10
• Publisher: Connecticut Historical Society

Summary

This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main Street in Hartford five years before Nathaniel Currier went into a similar business in New York and more than twenty-five years before Currier founded his partnership with James M. Ives, yet Daniel and his brothers Elijah and Edmund Kellogg have long been overshadowed by the Currier & Ives printmaking firm. Editor Nancy Finlay has gathered together eight essays that explore the complexity of the relationships between artists, lithographers, and print, map, and book publishers. Presenting a complete visual overview of the Kelloggs' production between 1830 and 1880, Picturing Victorian America also provides museums, libraries, and private collectors with the information needed to document the Kellogg prints in their own collections. The first comprehensive study of the Kellogg prints, this book demands reconsideration of this Connecticut family's place in the history of American graphic and visual arts.

Author Biography

NANCY FINLAY is the curator of graphics at the Connecticut Historical Society. She has worked at the New York Public Library, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and the Princeton University Library, and has written widely on the graphic arts.

CONTRIBUTORS: Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C. Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword

Project Supporters

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Taking a Fresh Look at Nineteenth-Century Lithography

From Hartford to Everywhere: The History of the Kellogg Firm and Its Associates

Family Values and Victorian Virtues in Kellogg Prints of Home and Family

Dressing Romantically: Clothing in Kellogg Prints, 1830-1860

Gothic Style: A Personal and National Taste

Written on Stone: Family Registers, Family Trees, and Memorial Prints

The Kellogg Brothers' Images of the Mexican War and the Birth of Modern-Day News

Sail and Steam on Stone: Maritime Prints of the Kelloggs

A Guide to Dating Kellogg Prints Based on Publishers' Imprints

Brief Biographies of the Kelloggs and Their Immediate Associates

Timeline of the Kelloggs' Personal and Business Activities

Checklist of Kellogg Lithographs in the Connecticut Historical Society

Further Readings

Contributors

Index of Proper Names and Illustrations

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