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List of illustrations

  • From the Retina of a Drowned Man
  • The Life Line
  • Undertow
  • After the Hurricane, Bahamas
  • The Fog Warning
  • The Fox Hunt
  • Right and Left
  • A Good Pool, Saguenay River
  • Section of the Rotunda, Leicester Square, in Which Is Exhibited the Panorama
  • Letter to George C. Briggs
  • Sharpshooter
  • Our Watering Places––The Empty Sleeve at Newport
  • L'Extrême-Onction (Extreme unction)
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Helped to Pirate Old Masters
  • The Pictorial Conjuror, study
  • Effingham I
  • Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie
  • Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie, repair report
  • Two Boys by Candlelight, Blowing a Bladder
  • Angel of the Resurrection
  • A Winter Morning, with a Party Skating
  • Study of Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • Time Smoking a Picture
  • Lavinia, Countess Spencer
  • Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • To the Genius of Franklin (Au Génie de Franklin)
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Omnium Metu
  • Plate VI: The Wrath of God descends on Lucifer
  • Frontispiece image
  • Thunder houses
  • Title page, showing a thunder house
  • Uncle Sam
  • King George II
  • First Order Light-House at Punta de los Reyes
  • Falls of the Yosemite
  • Point Reyes, from Light-House Looking South
  • Wanderer above a Sea of Fog
  • Point Reyes, Moonlight Effect Looking South
  • Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
  • First Order Light-House at Punta de los Reyes
  • Preliminary Chart of the Entrance to San Francisco Bay, United States Coast Survey
  • Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate
  • Reconnaissance of the Western Coast of the United States, United States Coast Survey
  • The Wreck of the "Ancon" in Loring Bay, Alaska
  • The "Heathen Chinese" Abalone Merchant at Drake's Bay
  • The Spring House (La Conduite d'eau)
  • Monte Sainte-Victoire
  • Hall of the Candelabra—Vatican
  • Man with Vest and St. Peter's Basilica
  • Frederick Douglass
  • He's Watching You
  • The Steerage
  • Untitled Film Still #35
  • Balloon Flower (Orange)
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In the early 1880s, the American artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sketched a tragic scene: a capsized boat foundering near a rocky shore lined with trees. At least one figure appears to be floating in the...
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In the spring of 1787, King George III visited the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House on the Strand in London’s West End. The king had come to see the first series of the Seven Sacraments painted by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) for Roman patron...
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On a stormy afternoon in 1745, Gilbert Tennent...
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In 1871, Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) traveled on the steamship Shubrick from San Francisco to the headlands of Point Reyes, some thirty-four miles north. With a small party, he landed on the beach at Drake’s Bay, so called because this inlet is supposed to be the stopping place of the British navigator during his Pacific voyage of 1579, and...
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One of the many anecdotes told in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is the story of how Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) learned about Cézanne (1839–1906) from her brother Leo (1872–1947), who had seen some of Cézanne’s paintings at Charles Loeser’s villa in Florence in the summer of 1903; Loeser had been told about Cézanne’s work by the latter’s close friend Claude Pissarro. At the turn of the century, Cézanne was known only by a small circle of friends, critics, and fellow...
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The contours of the category picture are neither as obvious nor as firm as they may seem. Tracking them over time betrays subtle historical shifts, oppositions, and particularities of meaning. As America passed from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, the category took on special importance for those extolling the merits of photography. For some, it rationalized shoehorning the...
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~Every effort has been made to trace ownership of visual material used in this volume. Errors and omissions will be corrected in subsequent printings provided notification is sent to the publisher.
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