Signs and Seasons Natural History John Burroughs cm286

Signs and Seasons Natural History John Burroughs

"Signs and Seasons," 1883, by John Burroughs, illustrated by Elbridge Kingsley. This is an original article from Century Magazine, Vol. XXV, No. 5, March, 1883, 11 pp. (loose), 6 engraved illustrations 6 1/4" x 9 1/4".

About the Author: John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs's special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world." The result was a body of work whose perfect resonance with the tone of its cultural moment perhaps explains both its enormous popularity at that time, and its relative obscurity since.

About the Illustrator:

Elbridge Kingsley, Born: 1842, Carthage, Ohio, Died: 1918, New York, New York. Also Active in: Hadley, Massachusetts.

Eldbridge Kingsley was born in Carthage, Ohio in 1841. While still an infant his parents moved to Hatfield, Massachusetts, where Kingsley was raised on a farm. He became interested in drawing while apprenticing at a newspaper in Northampton, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City and became interested in wood engraving through Scribner's Magazine and soon became an engraver there himself, interpreting the work of such American artists as George Inness and Albert Pinkham Ryder. He studied drawing for a short time at the Cooper Institute School of Art to enhance his engraving skills. Kingsley soon established himself as an original wood engraver and had his own outdoor compositions published. He joined the Society of American Wood Engravers and established his own school of engraving in New York City in 1880. He was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition of 1889, a medal at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, and a gold medal at the Mid-Winter Expostion in California in 1894.

During the last half of the 19th century Harper's Weekly and Century Magazine Published many great articles on current and recent events in history, both national and international, the Arts, World Travel and much more. Though photography was developed (forgive the pun) during the 1840s the preferred medium for magazine illustration was the great art of engraving, until the 1890s when photographs began to replace engravings.

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