After Icebergs With A Painter:
A Summer Voyage To Labrador And Around Newfoundland.
By Noble, Louis L.
London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co. & New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1862. First UK Edition. 8vo – 20.1 cm. pp. xiv, [1 leaf], 336. 6 tinted lithographed plates including frontispiece after paintings by Frederick E. Church. A most attractive copy in original publisher’s de-bossed ornate dark-blue cloth with bright gilt titles on spine. Prior owner’s attractive bookplate inside front cover, no internal markings and plates with original tissue guards, beginning wear to extremities. A complete and Very Scarce copy of a uniquely elegant publication in Near Fine condition..
In 1859, Lewis Noble set out for Labrador and the Newfoundland coast in company with American landscape artist, Frederick Edwin Church, for the purpose of studying and sketching icebergs. This is the first-person account of that voyage to Battle Harbour and of the return journey by way of the west coast of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and the Bay of Fundy, with incidental remarks on sealing, missionary activities and native people. “Church’s paintings of the Arctic icebergs, begun on his first trip to the north in 1859, represented in a marine subject Church’s awe of these romantic hinterlands. The six pale green tinted elegant lithographs of icebergs in their Arctic context, create the effect of an eerie northern wasteland while possessing the dramatic power that the artist sought. To Church the icebergs were symbols of the north. In such subjects he found both an expression of a continental geology and a sense of cosmic meaning.” —John Wilmerding, History of American Marine Painting, p. 83; O’Dea 661n. Morgan p. 296; Sabin 55380; Arctic Bibliography 12352.
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