19th C Antique Washington Irving Portrait Engraving Print Aft Alonzo Chappel yqz

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19th C Antique Washington Irving Portrait Engraving Print Aft Alonzo Chappel yqz:
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In this sale we have an antique engraving print (we believe stipple) of Washington Irving (1783-1859), American author and diplomat, born in Manhattan. We have provided quite a bit of interesting information on Irving below so please be sure to continue scrolling. The lower right corner under the image tells us this was after an original painting by Alonzo Chappel, (1828 - 1887) Alonzo Chappel was active/lived in New York and known for portrait-historical and military figures. (There is a wonderful bio about him on Ask Art\'s site!) This print has a sight measurement of approx. 5 1/2\" x 7 1/2\" and in the lovely wood frame is approx. 10 1/2\" x 8\". There is foxing and toning, especially along the bottom left side. Please be sure to look at all photos offered for more details. Happy offerding! The following bio was found on Encyclopedia\'s site:
Washington IrvingConsidered the first professional man of letters in the United States, Washington Irving (1783-1859)

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was influential in the development of the short story form and helped to gain international respect for fledgling American literature.Following the tradition of the eighteenth-century essay exemplified by the elegant, lightly humorous prose of Joseph Addison and Oliver Goldsmith, Irving created endearing and often satiric short stories and sketches. In his most-acclaimed work, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20), he wove elements of myth and folklore into narratives, such as \"Rip Van Winkle\" and \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, \" that achieved almost immediate classic status. Although Irving was also renowned in his lifetime for his extensive work in history and biography, it was through his short stories that he most strongly influenced American writing in subsequent generations and introduced a number of now-familiar images and archetypes into the body of the national literature.Irving was born and raised in New York City, the youngest of eleven children of a prosperous merchant family. A dreamy and ineffectual student, he apprenticed himself in a law office rather than follow his elder brothers to nearby Columbia College. In his free time, he read avidly and wandered when he could in the misty, rolling Hudson River Valley, an area steeped in local folklore and legend that would serve as an inspiration for his later writings.As a nineteen-year-old, Irving began contributing satirical letters under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle to a newspaper owned by his brother Peter. His first book, Salmagundi; or, The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others (1807-08), was a collaboration with another brother, William, and their friend James Kirke Paulding. This highly popular collection of short pieces poked fun at the political, social, and cultural life of the city. Irving enjoyed a second success in 1809 with A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, a comical, deliberately inaccurate account of New York\'s Dutch colonization narrated by the fictitious Diedrich Knickerbocker, a fusty, colorful Dutch-American. His carefree social life and literary successes were shadowed at this time, however, by the death of his fiancee, Matilda Hoffmann, and for the next several years he floundered, wavering between a legal, mercantile, and editorial career. In 1815 he moved to England to work in the failing Liverpool branch of the family import-export business. Within three years the company was bankrupt, and, finding himself at age thirty-five without means of support, Irving decided that he would earn his living by writing. He began recording the impressions, thoughts, and descriptions which, polished and repolished in his meticulous manner, became the pieces that make up The Sketch Book. The volume was brought out under the pseudonym of Geoffrey Crayon, who was purportedly a good-natured American roaming Britain on his first trip abroad.The Sketch Book comprises some thirty parts: about half English sketches, four general travel reminiscences, six literary essays, two descriptions of the American Indian, three essentially unclassifiable pieces, and three short stories: \"Rip Van Winkle,\" \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,\"and \"The Spectre Bridegroom.\" Although only the last-named tale is set in Germany, all three stories draw upon the legends of that country. The book was published almost concurrently in the United States and England in order to escape the piracy to which literary works were vulnerable before international copyright laws, a shrewd move that many subsequent authors copied. The miscellaneous nature of The Sketch Book was an innovation that appealed to a broad range of readers; the work received a great deal of attention and sold briskly, and Irving found himself America\'s first international literary celebrity. In addition, the book\'s considerable profits allowed Irving to devote himself full-time to writing.Remaining abroad for more than a decade after the appearance of The Sketch Book, Irving wrote steadily, capitalizing on his international success with two subsequent collections of tales and sketches that also appeared under the name Geoffrey Crayon. Bracebridge Hall; or, the Humorists: A Medley (1822) centers loosely around a fictitious English clan that Irving had introduced in several of the Sketch Book pieces. Bracebridge Hall further describes their manners, customs, and habits, and interjects several unrelated short stories, including \"The Student from Salamanca\" and \"The Stout Gentleman.\" Tales of a Traveller (1824) consists entirely of short stories arranged in four categories: European stories, tales of London literary life, accounts of Italian bandits, and narrations by Irving\'s alter-ego, Diedrich Knickerbocker. The most enduring of these, according to many critics, are \"The German Student,\" which some consider a significant early example of supernatural fiction, and \"The Devil and Tom Walker,\" a Yankee tale that like \"Rip Van Winkle\" draws upon myth and legend for characters and incident. After 1824 Irving increasingly turned his attention from fiction and descriptive writing toward history and biography. He lived for several years in Spain, serving as a diplomatic attache to the American legation while writing a life of Christopher Columbus and a history of Granada. During this period he also began gathering material for The Alhambra (1832), a vibrantly romantic collection of sketches and tales centered around the Moorish palace in Granada.Irving served as secretary to the American embassy in London from 1829 until 1832, when he returned to the United States. After receiving warm accolades from the literary and academic communities, he set out on a tour of the rugged western part of the country, which took him as far as Oklahoma. The expedition resulted in three books about the region, notably A Tour on the Prairies (1835), which provided Easterners with their first description of life out west by a well-known author. Irving eventually settled near Tarrytown, New York, at a small estate on the Hudson River, which he named Sunnyside. Apart from four years in Madrid and Barcelona, which he spent as President John Tyler\'s minister to Spain, Irving lived there the rest of his life. Among the notable works of his later years is an extensive biography of George Washington, which Irving worked on determinedly, despite ill health, from the early 1850s until a few months before his death in 1859.The Sketch Book prompted the first widespread critical response to Irving\'s writings. Reviewers in the United States were generally delighted with the work of their native son, and even English critics, normally hostile in that era to American authors, accorded the book generally favorable— if somewhat condescending—notice. Among the pieces singled out for praise in the early reviews were most frequently the three short stories, particularly \"Rip Van Winkle.\" Critics found Irving\'s style pleasingly elegant, fine, and humorous, although some, including Richard Henry Dana, perceived a lack of intellectual content beneath the decorative surface. Dana also observed that in adopting the authorial persona of Geoffrey Crayon—with his prose style modeled after the eighteenth-century essayists—Irving lost the robustness, high color, and comic vigor of his previous incarnations as Jonathan Oldstyle, Launcelot Langstaff, and Diedrich Knickerbocker, an observation that was echoed by later critics. Subsequent \"Crayon\" works, such as Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, and The Alhambra, while generally valued for their prose style, tended to prompt such complaints as that by the Irish author Maria Edgeworth that \"the workmanship surpasses the work.\"Beginning in the 1950s, however, critics began to explore technical and thematic innovations in Irving\'s short stories. These include the integration of folklore, myth, and fable into narrative fiction; setting and landscape as a reflection of theme and mood; the expression of the supernatural and use of Gothic elements in some stories; and the tension between imagination and creativity versus materialism and productivity in nineteenth-century America. Many critics read Rip\'s twenty-year sleep as a rejection of the capitalistic values of his society—ferociously personified by the shrewish Dame Van Winkle—and an embracing of the world of the imagination. Ichabod Crane, too, has been viewed by such critics as Robert Bone as representing the outcast artist-intellectual in American society, although he has been considered, conversely, as a caricature of the acquisitive, scheming Yankee Puritan, a type that Irving lampooned regularly in his early satirical writings.Today, many critics concur with Fred Lewis Pattee\'s assertion that the \"American short story began in 1819 with Washington Irving.\" Commentators agree, moreover, that in \"Rip Van Winkle\" and \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,\" Irving established an artistic standard and model for subsequent generations of American short story writers. As George Snell wrote: \"It is quite possible to say that Irving unconsciously shaped a principal current in American fiction, whatever may be the relative unimportance of his own work.\" In their continuing attention to the best of Irving\'s short fiction, critics affirm that while much of Irving\'s significance belongs properly to literary history, such stories as \"Rip Van Winkle\" and \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\" belong to literary art.

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