The Tracy Log Book: A month in Summer - 1855. Charles Tracy's Journal with Original Sketches and Drawings by Frederic Edwin Church

di Charles Tracy (Autore)

Anne Mazlish (Curatore)

Officina Libraria, 2026

The Tracy diary offers us the unique opportunity to accompany 27 nineteenth century travellers on an adventure of a lifetime, exploring Mount Desert Island, Maine, in August of 1855. This first group of summer visitors was a distinguished company and hailed primarily from New York, Hartford and Boston. In addition to Charles Tracy, a prominent New York lawyer, whose descendants through his son, Charles, daughter, Francis, and son-in-law, J. Pierpont Morgan, continue to summer on the island. The travelling party also included Frederic Edwin Church, a leading Hudson River School artist, and his friend, Theodore Winthrop, who died gallantly in the opening battle of the Civil War and then became posthumously famous as a novelist. After more than 170 years, Church’s playful sketches have been reunited with the first-hand account penned by Tracy, whose words strike a familiar chord in the memory of all who return again and again to the beauty and variety of Mount Desert Island.

• Autore: Charles Tracy
• Curatore: Anne Mazlish
• Editore: Officina Libraria
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 192 p.
• Dimensioni: 248 x 216 mm
• EAN: 9788833674001

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