Picturing Emerson: An Iconography

by Joel Myerson and Leslie Perrin Wilson

Picturing Emerson reproduces and explores the background of all known images of Ralph Waldo Emerson created from life, including drawings, paintings, silhouettes, sculptures, and photographs. The book provides dates for these images; information about their makers and Emerson's sittings; as well as commentary by family members and contemporaries. The resulting work makes it possible for the first time to trace Emerson's visage over seven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975979
• ISBN13: 9780674975972
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Houghton Library
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"