Picturing Victorian America : Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880

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. <P><B>Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009)</B><BR><B>Winner of the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (2010)</B></P><P>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 &amp; Ives printmaking firm. </P><P>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.</P><P>CONTRIBUTORS: Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C. Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway.</P> A landmark reference on 19th-century American lithographic production Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009) Winner of the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (2010) 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. Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C. Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway. Contents 6 Director’s Foreword 8 Project Supporters 12 Acknowledgments 14 1 Introduction: Taking a Fresh Look at Nineteenth-Century Lithography 20 2 From Hartford to Everywhere: The History of the Kellogg Firm and Its Associates 30 3 Family Values and Victorian Virtues in Kellogg Prints of Home and Family 46 4 Dressing Romantically: Clothing in Kellogg Prints, 1830–1860 58 5 Gothic Style: A Personal and National Taste 68 6 Written on Stone: Family Registers, Family Trees, and Memorial Prints 80 7 The Kellogg Brothers’ Images of the Mexican War and the Birth of Modern-Day News 92 8 Sail and Steam on Stone: Maritime Prints of the Kelloggs 104 A Guide to Dating Kellogg Prints Based on Publishers’ Imprints 118 Brief Biographies of the Kelloggs and Their Immediate Associates 122 Timeline of the Kelloggs’ Personal and Business Activities 148 Checklist of Kellogg Lithographs in the Connecticut Historical Society 156 Further Readings 242 Contributors 244 Index of Proper Names and Illustrations 246 A 246 B 246 C 246 D 247 E 247 F 248 G 248 H 248 I 249 J 249 K 249 L 250 M 250 N 250 O 251 P 251 Q 251 R 251 S 251 T 252 U 252 V 252 W 252 Y 252