Description: wood engraving by WINSLOW HOMER All in the Gay and Golden Weather June 12, 1869 This is the full issue of Appletons Journal from 1869, published over 150 years ago. It measures 8x11 inches in size, and is 28 pages long. It came from a bound volume and has typical disbinding marks at the spine, but is otherwise in Fine condition. On the front page, below the publication's traditional masthead, is a lovely pastoral scene drawn by Winslow Homer, showing a gentleman and his lady in a rowboat. The engraving is titled All in the Gay and Golden Weather, and below it is six lines of a poem by that title. The poem is by Alice Cary, and continues on for 36 more lines of verse on the backside of the page. Though Homer's artwork in Appleton's is rarer and much less well-known than the Gloucester scenes, etc., which he drew for Harper's Weekly, the drawing here nonetheless displays the distinctive style for which he became famous as an illustrator, and is a very nice example of his artistry at a time in his career before he later achieved even greater fame as a painter of American life. ********************************************* Background on this publication: Appletons Journal was an illustrated weekly paper published in New York. Its parent company was D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, which at the time was one of Americas leading book publishers. The paper was founded in 1869, and achieved a widespread, but shortlived national popularity during the next six years. It carried some serial fiction, but most of its content was devoted to essays on Americana subjects, plus the arts and sciences. Following several changes in editors, however, it began suffering a decline in circulation. It subsequently switched to monthly publication after 1876, and went out of business in 1881. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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