The Aldine

The Aldine
The Aldine, v.4, no.8, 1871
Editor Richard Henry Stoddard
Former editors James Sutton
Categories Pictorial, art, literature
Frequency Monthly
Publisher Aldine Company
First issue 1868
Final issue 1879
Company James Sutton & Company
Country United States of America
Based in New York
Language English
ISSN 2151-4186

The Aldine was an a monthly arts magazine published in New York in the 1800s.

History

The Aldine began publishing in 1868 as The Aldine Press, but was shortened in 1871. Subtitles included A typographic art journal from 1871 to 1873, and The art journal of America from 1874 to 1879.[1] Richard Henry Stoddard was the editor-in-chief from 1871 to 1875. The magazine contained high quality engravings of works by Thomas Moran and other Hudson River School painters. It also featured many reproductions of works by popular European academic artists such as Gustave Dore and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

According to art historian Janice Simon, the "extensive accounts of what the editors deemed the nation's most picturesque and sublime regions<...>branded The Aldine as a formidable competitor to Appleton's Journal and its publication of 1872, Picturesque America."[2]

Further reading

References

  1. A History of American Magazines, 1865-1885.
  2. Simon, Janice Consuming Pictures: The Aldine, The Art Journal of America and the Art of Self-Promotion,"The American Transcendental Quarterly", Sept 1998, Vol. 12#3 p 221

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