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[Plate accompanying, "Harper's Ferry," from Graham's Magazine, February
1842.]
This
engraving is the frontispiece for the issue, facing page 73, which carries
the text for "Harper's Ferry" as the first article. The picture is oriented
sideways on the page. Beneath the left corner of the picture is the name
"W. H. Bartlett" and beneath the right corner "A. L. Dick." William Henry
Bartlett (1809-1854) was the illustrator of N. P. Willis's American
Scenery, or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature
(London: George Virtue, 1840, 2 vols. with 121 steelplate engravings, published
serially in 30 parts, with printed paper covers). Centered under the picture,
the caption reads:
"HARPER'S FERRY.
(from the Blue ridge)
Engraved expressly for Graham's Magazine"
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