Cape Cod
| An appreciation: An edition that gives me great pleasure: Cape Cod, by Henry David Thoreau With Illustrations from Sketches In Two Volumes Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company |
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Each of the books is the size of a slender modern pocket book. Ms. Watson's sketches frequently accompany the text and gently take me back to the sea and to a simpler, harsher time. This page is near the the start of his trip, where the remnants of a deadly shipwreck are set off against the routines of the old man and his son gathering the wrecked weed, the seaweed thrown up by the storm. Click here for a larger version. | |
| "This [the mackeral fleet] was that city of canvas which we had seen hull down in the horizon...[Now] we found them flocking into Provincetown Harbor at night, just as we arrived, as if to meet us, and exhibit themselves close at hand. Standing by Race Point and Long Point with |  |
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Boston had an interesting community of women artists in the closing decades of the 19th century when Amelia Watson was painting. I believe the cover was designed by a member of that community. And sometime the design decisions were exciting, such as placing the bayberry sprigs on these pages. Click page or here to see readable text. |
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Note by Steve Ells, February 10, 2002. |
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