Collection: WH Bartlett

William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) was a British landscape artist famous for his views of all parts of the world which appeared in a series of travel volumes issued in the nineteenth century.  Beginning in 1837, British publisher George Virtue began to publish what would become the most successful of all Bartlett’s series, a work written by American author Nathaniel P. Willis and entitled American Scenery: or Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature.  The book and its prints were first issued in a series of parts running to November 1839, and then the entire work was issued in two volumes in January 1840.