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The “Spouting Horn” in a Storm Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| The “Spouting Horn” in a Storm Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "Even more dramatic is Fenn’s view of the Maine coast, ‘The Spouting Horn’ in a Storm,” with the mast of a wrecked ship, an example of the sublime associated with danger and man’s weakness in face of nature’s power. The metaphor of battle to describe the confrontation of sea and rocky coast had become a literary convention used by several Picturesque America writers." – Part of the author’s discussion of 19th century artists who added drama to what they saw when illustrating it, before the advent of photography. - "Creating picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape" by Sue Rainey, Vanderbilt University Press, 1994, p. 215. Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by William James Linton [show more] | |
Thunder Cave Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Thunder Cave Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by John Filmer | |
Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Great Head Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by H. Linton | |
Devil’s Den and Schooner Head - 1872 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Devil’s Den and Schooner Head - 1872 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Wood Engraving by an unknown artist - from "Mount Desert" by George Ward Nichols Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. CCLXVII, August, 1872, Vol. XLV, p. 332. | |
Castle Head, Mount Desert - 1872 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Castle Head, Mount Desert - 1872 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: From Picturesque America, Volume I Drawn by Harry Fenn Wood Engraving by Frederick William Quarterly |
Cave of the Sea, Schooner Head Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Cave of the Sea, Schooner Head Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Wood Engraving by an unknown artist - from "Mount Desert" by George Ward Nichols, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. CCLXVII, August, 1872, Vol. XLV, p. 321. The illustrations in the Harper's article, with one exception, are those used again in “Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast” by Samuel Adams Drake, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1875. “Superbly illustrated by eminent American artists.” – From an advertisement by Harper & Brothers – The Nation, July 15, 1875, p. 47. [show more] | |
Otter Cliff - Before 1905 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Otter Cliff - Before 1905 Southwest Harbor Public Library |