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Frontmatter
Introduction by Elliot S. Vesell
A Note on the Text
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Cole's Birth and Parentage. School-days. Wood Engraving. A Companion. Recreations. Poetry. Reading. Enthusiasm for America. At
Liverpool.
CHAPTER 2 The Family removes to America. Mr. Cole a Tradesman in Philadelphia. Thomas, his Employment and Recreations. The Family removes to Steubenville. Thomas continues his Wood Engraving in Philadelphia. Manners and Character described by Companions. Sails for the West Indies.
Incident of the Voyage. St. Eustatia. Return to Philadelphia. Journey to
Steubenville.
CHAPTER 3 Life in Steubenville. Influence of Nature upon him. Develops his Powers.
Finds him his Vocation, and his proper Language. Influence of a Portrait
Painter. Resolves to become an Artist. Enters upon his Profession. First
efforts. His Timidity. Becomes a Portrait-Painter from necessity.
CHAPTER 4 Cole an itinerant Portrait-Painter. His first Day out. Night at Mount
Pleasant. Arrival at St. Clairsville. Life at St. Clairsville. Adieu to St.
Clairsville. Walk to Zanesville. Life at Zanesville. Finds a Friend. Falls
into Difficulties. On his way to Chilicothe. Entrance into Town. Letters
of Introduction. Discouragements. Brighter prospects. A total Failure.
Returns to Zanesville. Paints a Picture. Adieu to his Friend. Returns
home.
CHAPTER 5 Cole remains at Steubenville. Scene-painting. Further Disappointment.
Conclusion of his Life in Steubenville. Letter to William A. Adams.
Life in Pittsburgh. Studies nature. Method of Study. Industry in Drawing
from Nature. Acts upon his earlier Resolution to pursue Art in a wider
Field. Leaves for Philadelphia. His Journey.
CHAPTER 6 Life in Philadelphia. Privations and Sufferings. Energy and Industry.
Pictures. A Portrait. Cole at Law. Character of his Pictures. An early
Landscape. Cole an Author. His Poetry. Prose-writings. Emma Moreton.
CHAPTER 7 An unexpected arrival. Leaves Philadelphia, and settles in New York.
Life in New York. Cole's Studio. His difficulties. His energy and cheerful
industry. First pictures, and their effect upon the public. Their results.
A student of nature again. The Hudson and the Catskills. Pictures of
their scenery. First acquaintance with artists. Success and reputation.
CHAPTER 8 Cole the Dupe of an unworthy Patron. National Academy of Design.
Life in the Catskill Mountains. Miscellany: Sunrise from the Catskills;
Extracts from the Wild, a poem; Thoughts on Nature; Characters of
Trees; Trip to Windham; Storm in the Catskills.
CHAPTER 9 Cole in Catskill. Miscellany: The Bewilderment.
CHAPTER 10 Cole's Spirit in the Study of Nature. His Pictures the Embodiment of
Simple, wild Nature. A higher kind of Art naturally suggested, and growing out of the Elements of his Character.
CHAPTER 11 Cole enters upon a higher style of Art. Its consequences. Letters to Mr.
Gilmor: picture painted for him; remarks on pictorial composition;
pictures in the Academy; the Garden of Eden; the Expulsion. Trip to
the White Mountains.
CHAPTER 12 Cole anticipates going abroad. Letters to Mr. Gilmor: asks a favour; a
favourable reply. A Visit to Niagara.
CHAPTER 13 Cole in England. Delight at its Rural Beauties. Studies Nature rather
than Pictures. Disappointment at English art. To his Parents: rural
scenery; London; Westminster Abbey; pictures; the poet Rogers. Hagar
in the Wilderness. Life in London. Disappointments. Sir Thomas Lawrence. English art. Notes on Art: Turner; Hogarth; Claude; Rembrandt;
Elzheimer; the effects of time on pictures; of detail in pictures. To Sarah
Cole: pictures in the Exhibition; a musical gentleman. To Mr. Gilmor:
Sir Thomas Lawrence; opinions of painters. To Mr. Cummings. To
Sarah Cole: The Storm. To Mr. Gilmor.
CHAPTER 14 Cole in Paris. Notes on Art: the Louvre; French art; Ary Scheffer; Luxenmbourg. Journal: the Rhone. To his Parents: from Paris to Marseilles.
Journal: Genoa. To his Parents: from Marseilles to Florence.
CHAPTER 15 Cole in Florence. Journal: Visit to Volterra. To Mr. Morton: Life in
Florence. Bryant's Sonnet to Cole. Life in Florence. To Mr. Gilmor: a
picture for him. Sunset on the Arno. Love of Florence.
CHAPTER 16 Cole at Rome. In his Studio, and in Society. Among the works of Art.
In Nature.
CHAPTER 17 To his Parents: from Florence to Rome; Rome labourers; the Carnival.
Notes at Naples: the Colosseum; Pantheon; St. Peter's; the Vatican;
Apollo; Venus; Transfiguration; St. Jerome; Moses. Panorama of Naples.
Paestum.
CHAPTER 18 Journal: from Rome to Florence. To Mr. Gilmor: in Florence again. In
the Spirit of Painting. Unexpected call Homewards. His Florentine
pictures. Their reception at Home. Cole's opinion of modern Italian
pictures. His opinion of the Old Masters. Opinion of Landscape Painting.
Florentine pictures, neither copies of the Old Masters, nor false to Nature.
The grounds of these charges considered.
CHAPTER 19 Cole in New York. Luman Reed. Letter to Mr. Reed: plan of the Course
of Empire. Cole's gratitude. To Mr. Adams. Rebuked for Ingratitude. To
Mr. Adams: vindicates himself. To the same: renewal of friendship. To
the same: Il Arco di Nerone. Cole's generosity. To Mr. Alexander: painting in Catskill. To the same. Angels appearing to the Shepherds. Picture
for Mr. Alexander.
CHAPTER 20 Thoughts and Occurrences: a dream; a walk; regret on leaving the country; dislike of the city; the music of colours; recollections of return from
Europe; musings; poem. To Mr. Alexander. Thoughts, &c.: sad recollections; lecture on American scenery; sympathy with nature; after the
storm; a walk to the river; Scott and Irving. Anecdote of Cole's tenderness.
CHAPTER 21 Thoughts and Occurrences: holidays on the mountains; a walk; Rip Van
Winkle's dell; the Mountain House; the lakes; a voyage; mountain landscape; title of the series of pictures; musings. To Mr. Reed: painting the
third picture of the Course of Empire. Thoughts, &c.: Schroon scenery;
musings on nature; monument to Washington; want of a congenial spirit;
true lovers of nature few. Spirits of the Wilderness, a poem.
CHAPTER 22 Thoughts and Occurrences: a new year. First winter in Catskill. An
Attachment. To Mr. Reed: ornamental designs for doors. To the Same:
the fourth of the Course of Empire begun. To the Same: how far advanced. To the Same: difficulties of the third picture. To the Same: the
fifth picture proposed for the approaching exhibition of the Academy of
Design. To the Same: the third picture finished. To the Same: motives to
labour; maledictions on tree-destroyers. To the Same: nature of the malediction. To Mr. Durand: sickness of Mr. Reed. To the Same: effect
upon Cole's spirits. Thoughts, &c.: cares of life. To Mr. Durand.
Thoughts, &c.: death of Mr. Reed. Thoughts, &c.: beauty of the season;
a walk up the Catskill river. To Mr. Durand: the fourth picture. To the
Same: country air for a painter. Thoughts, &c.: completion of the
Course of Empire.
CHAPTER 23 Cooper's opinion of Cole and his pictures. Remarks on the Course of
Empire. Cole's marriage.
CHAPTER 24 Commission for the Departure and Return. Thoughts and occurrences:
Retrospection; pictures painted; death of his father; visit to Schroon
Lake; scenery; song of a spirit. To Mr. Van Rensselaer: the Departure
and Return. Thoughts, &c.: autumn; the dying year. To Mr. Van Rensselaer: description of the Departure and Return. Bryant's criticism.
Thoughts, &c.: Death of his mother.
CHAPTER 25 To Mr. Durand: his Rip Van Winkle; Schroon Mountain picture.
Thoughts and Occurrences: poetic musings. To Mr. Durand: Conrad
and Medora; Coleridge's "Love," a subject for a picture. Pictures for Mr.
Stuyvesant. To Mr. Durand: pictures. To the same: painting the Dream of
Arcadia. The Dream of Arcadia.
CHAPTER 26 Thoughts and occurrences: spring; the fields; his own works compared
with the old; discouragements; the ruined tower. To Mr. Adams: Cole
an architect. To Mr. Durand: the critics. Thoughts, &c.: the summer;
the landscape; vine in the grove. To Mr. Durand. To Mr. Adams: designs for the State-house. Thoughts, &c.: excursion to Schoharie; to
High Peak. To Dr. Ackerly; home amusements.
CHAPTER 27 Thoughts and Occurrences: winter in the city; commission for the Voyage of Life; the season. To Mr. Adams: Ohio State-house. To Mrs. Cole:
Canandaigua. Genesee Waterfall. To Mr. Ward: the Voyage of Life.
Thoughts, &c.: death of Mr. Ward. To Mr. Durand: a new paintingroom. Thoughts, &c.: religious musings.
CHAPTER 28 Thoughts and occurrences: the new year; to his son. To Mr. Ver Bryck:
first picture of the Voyage of Life. Thoughts, &c.: birth-day. To Mr.
Adams: Daguerreotype. To the Rev. Mr. Phillips of the Voyage of Life.
To Mr. Durand: the Architect's Dream. Thoughts, &c.: spirit of the
Gothic artists. Description of the Voyage of Life. Bryant's remarks on
the series. Spiritual meaning of his pictures.
CHAPTER 29 Thoughts and Occurrences: Birth-day. To Mr. Adams: the season.
Thoughts, &c.: Beauty of summer; Canoe Lake; flowers; a complaint.
Determination to re-visit Europe. Remarks on the duplicate series of the
Voyage of Life painted at Rome. To Mrs. Cole: eve of embarkation.
CHAPTER 30 To Mrs. Cole: thoughts of home. To the same: Kenilworth Castle; Warwick Castle; Stratford. To the Same: the Louvre. Journal: N. Poussin;
Correggio; spirituality of the earlier painters. Thoughts, &c.: thoughts on
the works of the old masters. Journal: Neufchatel; distant Alps; Bernese
Alps. To Miss Maria Cooke: of Switzerland. Journal: Vaucluse.
CHAPTER 31 To Mrs. Cole: at Rome again. Thoughts, &c.: retrospection. To Mrs.
Cole: commences the second Series of the Voyage of Life; life at Rome.
To the same: New Year's Day; Tasso's face; invitation to a prince's party.
To Ver Bryck: Rome; recollections. To Mrs. Cole: gaieties; Prince Torlonia's party; Princess Doria; French embassador's party; flowers.
Journal: Catacombs of St. Agnes. To Mr. Durand; anticipations of
Sicily. Thoughts, &c.: Thorwaldsen. To Mrs. Cole: the Vatican by
torch-light. To the same: the pictures finished; the miserere; anticipations
of home.
CHAPTER 32 Journal: south of Italy. Tour of Sicily: Taormina; ascent of Ætna.
Journal: Milan; The Last Supper. Lago Maggiore. Down the Rhine: an
adventure. To Sarah Cole: on the eve of embarking for America.
CHAPTER 33 To Mr. Greene; the Catskills. Thoughts, &c.: arrival at home; the
beautiful, the true. Cole a member of the church. To Mr. Edmonds;
picture of Mount Ætna. Thoughts, &c.: New Year's Day. To Mr.
Greene; art, artists. To Ver Bryck. To the Same; art, critics. Thoughts,
&c.: associations.
CHAPTER 34 Thoughts and Occurrences: the Falls of the Caterskill in winter; winter;
pictures painted. The Ministration of Angels. Thoughts, &c.: Allston.
A sunset.
CHAPTER 35 Picture of Ætna from Taormina. To Mrs. Cole: the Sketch Club. To Mr.
Parker; L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. Campagna di Roma. To Mr. Wadsworth: proposed pictures, Sowing and Reaping; Life, Death, and Immortality. To Mrs. Cole: the Mill at Sunset. To the Same: Moon over
the left Shoulder. Poem of the Voyage of Life. Thoughts, &c.: death of
Ver Bryck. Pictures of 1845-6. To Mrs. Cole: the Elijah. Church, the
painter. Twilight.
CHAPTER 36 Thoughts and Occurrences: anticipations of a great work; birth-day; the
Tread of Time; death in the family; lost time. Excursion to the Shawangunk. Excursion to South Peak. A new studio. Its views. Excursion to
the Adirondack Mountains. Thoughts, &c.: Christmas-day; birth-day;
death in the family. Niagara. To Mr. Falconer: sculpture and painting.
Thoughts, &c.: New Year's-day; the season. Cole's last letter: mental and
moral habits of artists. Thoughts, &c.: Cole's last notes.
CHAPTER 37 Cole's mental maturity. Cole, a master. His great works yet in anticipation. Feelings with respect to those already accomplished. The consolation for their moral defects found in his hopes of a future, and his
greatest work. Pictures preceding it. Pictures succeeding it. Conception
of the Cross and the World. The Prometheus Vinctus, and Proserpine
gathering flowers in the fields of Enna.
CHAPTER 38 The Voyage of Life, an exponent of his religious faith at the time it was
painted. The Cross and the World, the exponent of a ripened and true
faith. Its theology. First picture of the Cross and the World. The second
picture, the Trial of Faith. Its unity. Feeling with which it was painted.
Its characteristics.
CHAPTER 39 Manner of life in his last days. Book on art. A volume of poems. Life out
of doors. His conversation. Favourite topics. Ripeness of his Christian
character. The Triumph of faith, the last of the pilgrim of the Cross.
Painted in solitude. Miltonic in its character. The Lord is my Shepherd,
last pure landscape. As a work of art. An Italian pine in the Proserpine,
his last painting. Death.
Conclusion
Notes
Paintings Mentioned in the Text
Index
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