1st Edition
Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5 Texts and Contexts
By Laurie Garrison, Anne Anderson, Sibylle Erle, Verity Hunt, Peter West, Phoebe Putnam
Copyright 2013
512 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 5 American Panoramas, Introduction to American Panoramas Descriptive Pamphlets John Vanderlyn, Description of the Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles (1819) John Banvard, Geographical Panorama of the Mississippi River (1847) Description of Lane’s Panorama of the Hudson River (1848) Charles Gayler, A Description of Lewis’ Mammoth Panorama of the Mississippi River (1849) William Wells Brown, Original Panoramic Views of the Scenes in the Life of an American Slave (1850) Descriptive and Historical View of Burr’s Moving Mirror, of the Lakes, the Niagara, St. Lawrence, and Saguenay Rivers (1850) John Skirving, Descriptive of Colonel Fremont’s Overland Route to Oregon and California (1850) Dr. Kane’s Arctic Voyage (1857) Description of Bullard’s Panorama of New York City (1850s) Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg (1886) Contextual Materials On the Foreground (1887) Historiscope Lecture (late nineteenth century) John Stevens, Panorama of the Indian Massacre of 1862 and the Black Hills (1870s) Albert Norton, Brief Sketch of the Life of O. A. Bullard (1851) Editorial Notes Index
Biography
General Editor: Laurie Garrison, Consulting Editor: Anne Anderson, Volume Editors: Volume 5 Peter West
