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‘Another fifty years may lay a foundation’: the legacy of William Birch's landscape art

‘Another fifty years may lay a foundation’: the legacy of William Birch's landscape art ‘Another fifty years may lay a foundation’: the legacy of William Birch’s landscape art emily t. cooperman William Russell Birch was the first artist successfully to publish sets of engraved Unfortunately, this magical first decade of the nineteenth century marked the views in the United States. The first edition of his City of Philadelphia in 1800 was apogee of Birch’s career as a landscape artist rather than a point in the ascending followed by a second and a third before 1810. These later versions included arc of fame. Further, and despite the apparent success of both his American new plates of subjects not seen in the first, further expanding not only his publications and designs, his ‘book of profits’, kept from just after the War of publication, but the sense of the progress of American civilization that underlay 1812 until the end of his working life in 1830, reveals that much of Birch’s the purpose of the original project (figure 1). Birch advertised his later editions income in this period was derived from selling enamel paintings (as it had from in part with the claim that he finally had decent paper to use. The Country Seats the beginning of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

‘Another fifty years may lay a foundation’: the legacy of William Birch's landscape art

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10.1080/14601176.2012.629506
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‘Another fifty years may lay a foundation’: the legacy of William Birch’s landscape art emily t. cooperman William Russell Birch was the first artist successfully to publish sets of engraved Unfortunately, this magical first decade of the nineteenth century marked the views in the United States. The first edition of his City of Philadelphia in 1800 was apogee of Birch’s career as a landscape artist rather than a point in the ascending followed by a second and a third before 1810. These later versions included arc of fame. Further, and despite the apparent success of both his American new plates of subjects not seen in the first, further expanding not only his publications and designs, his ‘book of profits’, kept from just after the War of publication, but the sense of the progress of American civilization that underlay 1812 until the end of his working life in 1830, reveals that much of Birch’s the purpose of the original project (figure 1). Birch advertised his later editions income in this period was derived from selling enamel paintings (as it had from in part with the claim that he finally had decent paper to use. The Country Seats the beginning of

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

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