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Title: Picturesque America. by Oliver Ormerod Jensen, William Cullen Bryant ISBN: 0-07-032461-1 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: August, 1974 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $25.00

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Summary: How American artists viewed their country over 100 years ago
Comment: "Picturesque America" is a collection of almost 50 wood and steel engravings that was originally issued in 1874 under the auspices of William Cullen Bryant. This collection, issued in 1974, by Oliver Jensen of American Heritage Magazine is essentially a second look at this late nineteenth century self-portrait through more modern eyes.

As Oliver Jensen states in his preface, these pictures are an idealized view of our country, and are not to be taken as representative. The engravings are by both well-known and obscure artists, and all are beautifully done. Here are pictures of various cities, rivers, mountains, and lakes from the Gilded Age, but without any of that period's cynicism. Even the cities seem to take on a pastoral quality that is both striking and impossibly sentimental. If you want to see how artists viewed the idealistic and proud hopes of late nineteenth century America, then I recommend this book. If you want to see photographs of the late nineteenth century, then I recommend "American Album" and "America's Yesterdays," both by Oliver Jensen or Michael Lesy's "Dreamland" .