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Joshua Shaw
An Italiante Landscape, ca 1820-50
After emigrating from England to Philadelphia in 1817, Joshua Shaw quickly established himself as one of America's first landscape painters. His topographical sketches and watercolors were widely disseminated as prints – notably in the publication Picturesque Views of American Scenery (1820-21). Some of his scenes were also reproduced as decorative motifs on fine ceramics.
Not all of Shaw's images were based on actual views; many, like An Italianate Landscape, were imagined vistas that reveal that artist's understanding of picturesque landscape conventions developed earlier in Europe. |