Price: $100.00
SKU: 103714
ARTIST: W. B. Closson
MEDIUM: Lithograph,
DATE: c.1865
EDITION SIZE: Image size 6 x 4"
DESCRIPTION: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), the influential American essayist, lecturer, and philosopher whose writings formed the intellectual foundation of the Transcendentalist movement in nineteenth-century New England. The engraving was executed by the American artist William Baxter Closson (1848–1926), one of the most accomplished practitioners of reproductive wood engraving in the United States during the late nineteenth century.<BR><BR> Emerson, a central figure in American intellectual life, was closely associated with the philosophical movement known as Transcendentalism, which emphasized individual intuition, the spiritual significance of nature, and the importance of self-reliance. His essays—including Nature (1836) and Self-Reliance (1841) as well as his lectures and poetry, exerted a profound influence on American literature and thought. Emerson was also a leading member of the literary circle centered in Concord, Massachusetts, which included figures such as Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller.
ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil lower right.
CONDITION: Very good condition.
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