Authors CDVs

Authors

AA4. CD Fredricks, NY. William Cullen Bryant (Nov 3, 1794-June 12, 1878) Noted American poet and journalist; editor of NY Evening Post. CDV. VG. $45

AA7. Charles D. Fredricks & Co., NYC. Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867). American poet and author. Lived at Idlewild on the Hudson. CDV. VG. $75

AA18. Elliott & Fry, London. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). Noted English poet and critic. CDV. Two corners chipped. VG. $55

AA19. Edgar Lincoln, London. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). Noted English novelist. CDV. VG. $150

AA20. Herbert Watkins, London. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Author of "The Woman in White," "The Moonstone," etc. Collins is viewed as playing an important role in the evolution of the mystery genre. CDV. VG. $150

AA22. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Charles Dickens. CDV. VG. $200

AA23. Chalot, Paris. Alexander Dumas (1802-1870). Noted French dramatic author and novelist. Few spots. CDV. VG. $95

AA24. Gundall & Co., London. Tennyson (1809-1892). Celebrated English poet. CDV. VG. $60

AA25. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. William Hickley Prescott (1796-1859). Noted American historian. CDV. VG. $50

AA29. Pierre Petit, Paris. Alphonse Carr (1808-1890). French philosopher, journalist, and writer. He wrote "The more things change, the more things stay the same." CDV. VG. $50

AA31. Pierre Petit, Paris. Edmond About (1828-1885). French novelist, journalist, and writer. CDV. VG. $35

AA36. H.J. Whitlock, Birmingham. Dr. Francis William Newman (1805-1897). English scholar and writer. CDV. VG. $25

AA39. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. Park Benjamin (1809-1864). American journalist and poet; associated with American Monthly Magazine. CDV. VG. $45

AA43. Pierre Petit, Paris. Victor Cousin (1792-1867). French philosopher; author of "Eclecticism;" influential in the New England Transcendentalists. CDV. VG. $50

AA45. No ID. John Johnstone "Lester" Wallack (1820-1888). Actor, playwright, theatrical manager. CDV. G. $45

AA52. Elliott & Fry, London. Mark Lemon (1809-1870). Editor of Punch, the great English humor magazine. CDV. VG. $65

AA53. Brady, published by E&HT Anthony. Horace Greeley (1811-1872). Journalist, established the NY Tribune in 1841, served as its editor for 30 years. Active abolitionist and feminist. CDV. VG. $135

AA54. No ID. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). Noted English novelist. Cabinet Card. VG. $50

AA57. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Thule Anderson. Cabinet Card. I believe he was an author but I'm still seeking information on him. VG. $75

AA58. The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company. The Late Mr. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Great English Philosopher. CDV. VG. $95

AA59. Elliott and Fry, London. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Great English poet. CDV. VG. $75

AA61. Elliott and Fry, London. John Ruskin (1819-1900).

Ruskin was the greatest British art critic and social commentator of the Victorian Age. His ideas inspired the Arts and Crafts Movement and the founding of the National Trust, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Labour Movement. He fiercely attacked the worst aspects of industrialization, and actively promoted art education and museums for the working classes. His prophetic statements on environmental issues speak to our generation as well as to his own.

Born on 8 February 1819, the son of a prosperous sherry importer, Ruskin became a published poet and writer on geology by the age of fifteen, by which time he knew the Bible intimately. Throughout his life he undertook extended tours of Britain and the Continent, providing material for literary works such as The Poetry of Architecture, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, Mornings in Florence, and The Bible of Amiens.

Ruskin's admiration for the work of J.M.W. Turner led to the writing of Modern Painters (5 vols), his magnum opus After the publication of the third and fourth volumes in 1856, George Eliot wrote: 'I venerate him as one of the great Teachers of the day . . . . The two last volumes of Modern Painters contain, I think, some of the finest writing of this age.' By this time Ruskin's readership in America was even larger than that in Britain, and later his work shaped the thinking of Gandhi, Tolstoy and Proust. Today there are important holdings of Ruskin material in the USA and in Tokyo, home of the Mikimoto Collection.

Ruskin was a great teacher, campaigner and controversialist. In the early 1850s he championed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and taught in the Working Men's College, London. Later in his career he used his tenure of the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Oxford to challenge established ideas on art and education. In the 1870s, while publishing his Oxford lectures, Ruskin also wrote Fors Clavigera, his monthly 'Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain'. Fors, and his lectures and books on socio-economic issues and on scientific topics, including Unto This Last and Munera Pulveris, The Crown of Wild Olive and Sesame and Lilies, The Queen of the Air and The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, reflect the breadth of his intellect, while his autobiographical writings, particularly Praeterita, reveal a sensitive and tormented mind.

Ruskin created the Guild of St George, of which he was the first Master, and which still quietly continues his work today. He generously endowed the Guild's St George's Museum in Sheffield, and the Ruskin Drawing School in Oxford. He taught many people how to draw, published The Elements of Drawing and The Elements of Perspective, and was himself a superb draughtsman.

By the time Ruskin died at Brantwood on 20 January 1900 he had accumulated a large collection of material which reflects his extraordinary range of interests and achievements: the manuscript diaries and notebooks in which he recorded events, ideas and cloud formations, sketched the Stones of Venice and the geological strata of the Alps, drafted sermons, poems and lectures; his remarkable drawings through which he learned to observe the world in great detail, and which he used to teach others; literary manuscripts and editions of his own works; the photographs and daguerreotypes which added to his unique record of the external world. CDV. VG. $75

AA64. Sarony, NY. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Famous American poet. CDV. VG. $75

AA70. Charles Watkins, London. William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863). English novelist. Wrote Vanity Fair, a satire of middle class English society. CDV. VG. $75

AA71. Rockwood, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English novelist. CDV. G+. $95

AA74. Sarony & Co., NY. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). American poet, essayist, scholar, and diplomat. He succeeded Longfellow in professorship at Harvard. Editor of Atlantic Monthly 1857-62; Minister to Spain 1877-80; Minister to Great Britain 1880-85. CDV. Oddly, one can see some of the text from the back of the card through the image although the card is of normal thickness. Possible the imprint is from a card that laid on top of this one. G. $25

AA75. Sarony & Co., NY. Horace Greeley (1811-1872). Journalist, established the NY Tribune in 1841, served as its editor for 30 years. Active abolitionist and feminist. CDV. VG. $100

AA77. Pach, NY. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894). American poet, essayist, novelist, and scientist. Developed the hand-held "Holmes" Stereoscope. CDV. VG. $125

AA82. C.D. Fredricks & Co. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Famous American poet. CDV. VG. $75

AA83. Warren, Boston. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Famous American poet. CDV. VG. $75

AA84. Sarony, NY. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). The "Quaker Poet." Also Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. CDV. VG. $75

AA86. Sarony, NY. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). English novelist. Author of "The Woman in White," "The Moonstone," etc. Collins is viewed as playing an important role in the evolution of the mystery genre. CDV. VG. $150

AA87. Black, Boston. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909). American author and Unitarian clergyman. Author of "The Man Without a Country." CDV. VG. $150

AA89. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English novelist. 1867 copyright line bottom recto. Dickens did readings in NYC in 1867 when this image was taken. Variant of AA101 below. CDV. VG. $150

AA91. Silsbee, Case & Co., Boston. Published by Williams & Everett. Elizabeth Barrett Browing (1906-1861) and Robert Wiedemann Barrett (1849-1912). English poet, married Robert Browing 1846. CDV. VG. $150

AA96. Sarony, NY. Oscar Wilde. Cabinet Card. Copyright 1882. G+. (4891) $1500

AA98. William & Co. Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French author. CDV. VG. $85

AA99. Sarony, NY. Oscar Wilde. Copyright 1882 by N. Sarony. This is what I call a "panel" card photo, slightly taller and slightly narrower than a cabinet card. It measures 4" x 7" and has been just slightly trimmed at top and bottom. Oscar is in his winter clothes in this image. VG. $1200

AA100. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English novelist. 1867 copyright line bottom recto. Dickens did readings in NYC in 1867 when this image was taken. CDV. VG. $125

AA101. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Great English novelist. 1867 copyright line bottom recto. Dickens did readings in NYC in 1867 when this image was taken. Variant of AA89 above. CDV. VG. $150

AA103. London Stereoscopic Co. The Late George Eliot (1819-1880). Born Mary Anne Evans, unmarried partner to George Henry Lewes, author of Amos Barton, Silar Marner, Scenes of Clerical Life and other novels. Cabinet Card. E. $125

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