1st Edition

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 2 Texts and Contexts

    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.

    Panoramas, 1787–1900 Volume 2 Stable Panoramas in Britain, Part II, Panoramas at Leicester Square and the Strand: Narrative Programmes (continued) Description of a View of the Falls of Niagara (1834) 1 Description of a View of the Cemetery of Père la Chaise (1834) Description of a View of the City of New York (1834) Description of a View of the Great Temple of Karnak and the Surrounding City of Thebes (1835) Description of a View of Mont Blanc, the Valley of Chamounix, and the Surrounding Mountains (1837) Description of a View of Canton, the River Tigress; and the Surrounding Country (1838) Description of a View of Rome, Ancient and Modern; with the Surrounding Country (1839) Description of a View of the Holy City of Benares, and the Sacred Ganges (1840) Description of a View of the City of Jerusalem, and the Surrounding Country (1841) Description of a View of the Battle of Waterloo (1842) Description of a View of the City of Cabul, the Capital of Afghanistan, with the Surrounding Country (1842) Description of a View of the Island and Bay of Hong Kong (1844) Description of a View of the Ruins of the Temples of Baalbec (1844) Description of a View of Athens and the Surrounding Country (1845) Description of a View of Constantinople (1846) Description of a View of the Battle of Sobraon (1846) Description of a View of the Himalaya Mountains (1847) Description of a View of the City of Cairo, and the Surrounding Country (1847) Editorial Notes

    Biography

    General Editor: Laurie Garrison, Consulting Editor: Anne Anderson, Volume Editors: Volume 2 Sibylle Erle, Laurie Garrison, Phoebe Putnam