Book description
This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific
Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four
decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main Street in
Hartford five years before Nathaniel Currier went into a similar
business in New York and more than twenty-five years before Currier
founded his partnership with James M. Ives, yet Daniel and his brothers
Elijah and Edmund Kellogg have long been overshadowed by the Currier
& Ives printmaking firm.
Editor Nancy Finlay has gathered together eight essays that explore the
complexity of the relationships between artists, lithographers, and
print, map, and book publishers. Presenting a complete visual overview
of the Kelloggs' production between 1830 and 1880, Picturing Victorian
America also provides museums, libraries, and private collectors with
the information needed to document the Kellogg prints in their own
collections. The first comprehensive study of the Kellogg prints, this
book demands reconsideration of this Connecticut family's place in the
history of American graphic and visual arts.
CONTRIBUTORS: Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C.
Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally
Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway. "Well-illustrated,
handsomely designed, thoroughly researched, and meticulously edited,
Picturing Victorian America is the standard work on the Kelloggs'
contribution to nineteenth-century American lithography."--Paul S.
Koda, Printing History NANCY FINLAY is the curator of graphics at the
Connecticut Historical Society. She has worked at the New York Public
Library, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and the Princeton
University Library, and has written widely on the graphic arts.
