
Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America - Hardcover
by Peter Conn
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter ConnSeries:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society #946Publish date:2025-04-22Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:American Philosophical Society PressISBN-13:9781606180495ISBN-10:1606180495UPC:9781606180495Book Category:History, ArtBook Subcategory:United States, Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:19th Century, PortraitsSize:9.20 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC9EWQ0G46
Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America
Philadelphia's early national history represented in Thomas Sully's portraits
Thomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years. Using those portraits, Thomas Sully's Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America reconstructs many of the people, institutions, and events that combined to make Philadelphia, from the Revolution until the 1840s,...Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society #946
Language:EnglishPublisher:American Philosophical Society PressISBN-13:9781606180495ISBN-10:1606180495UPC:9781606180495Book Category:History, ArtBook Subcategory:United States, Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:19th Century, PortraitsSize:9.20 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC9EWQ0G46
Peter Conn retired from the University of Pennsylvania as Vartan Gregorian Professor of English and Professor of Education and was a member of the graduate groups in the history of art and American civilization. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge University Press) and Literature in America (Cambridge). Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural...
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