Picturesque America or The Land We Live In Part 12 with the engraving "Washington From Arlington Heights," ADC oversize flat by Bryant, William Cullen, et al - circa 1872

New York: D. Appleton & Co., circa 1872. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [33.65cm/13.25inches]. This was one of several parts which were sold by subscription; the buyer being responsible for having all the sets bound by their bookbinder. This is one of about 100 parts. Prefatory to the text is a full page steel engraving of "Washington from Arlington Heights," engraved by Robert Hinshelwood after a painting by W. (Wlliam) Sheppard. Born in Richmond, Virginia, William Sheppard was a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter. Sheppard enlisted in the Civil War in the Army of Northern Virginia, reaching the rank of engineering officer. It has been written that he devoted most of his spare time to drawing and painting his fellow soldiers, and he is credited for providing valuable visual records of the War from the perspective of a Southerner. After the War, he continued his career as a painter and book illustrator, and as a sculptor, completed a commission, Soldiers and Sailors Monument. The text includes the last part of The Lower Mississippi, [pp. 266-278] w/ engravings. Mackinac follows with wood engravings after paintings and sketches by J. (John) Douglas Woodward (1846 – 1924). Woodward, was one of the country's "best-known painters and illustrators". He produced hundreds of scenes of the United States, Northern Europe, the Holy Land, and Egypt, many of which were reproduced in popular magazines of the day. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional snapshots. Picturesque America is a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, published in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and concept was similar to that of Picturesque Europe. The work's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States .