This is a very competitive price on a rare publication from the Connecticut Historical Society in 1983. Compare! Every other copy I've seen online sells for $500 or more, up to over $1000. See below for more information on this rare document of the early 19th Century correspondence between two leading citizens of the time. 


This collection contains nineteen pieces of correspondence written by Thomas Cole to Daniel Wadsworth (1771-1848) spanning the 1826-1832. Cole wrote to Wadsworth as an artist commissioned to paint works thus the subjects dealt with include the painting of Katerskill Falls (1826), and other works such as the Garden of Eden (1828) done for Wadsworth. Along with discussions of Cole's works from this period, one piece of correspondence from Florence, Italy expressing his desire to return home after having spent the past two years in England, dated July 13, 1832.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848); an illustrious 19th century painter born in Lancashire, England, immigrated to the United States in 1818. Cole lived in Philadelphia, Ohio, and Pittsburgh where he went on to work as a portrait artist, having received little to no formal training. In 1825, Cole began studying and painting the wilderness in the Catskills, and was discovered by Asher B. Durand who made him a fellow at the National Academy. In 1829-1831, he returned to Europe for family business, and traveled throughout France and Italy. During his travels, he met a number of wealthy Americans who from who he would continue on to receive commissions.

Cole returned to New York City in 1832, meeting the successful business man and art gallery owner Luman Reed. During this period, Cole rented a house in Cedar Grove, New York, in the Catskills where he established his first rural studio. In 1836, he married Maria Bartow there, and continued to develop his work expressing strong views on industrialization and its negative impacts on wild beauty with a series of works titled "The Course of Empire." Cole continued to paint until his death in 1848 after an acute attack of pleurisy, becoming a popular figure of the Hudson River School Artists and American art depicting the natural world.


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