Front Cover: F. de Villain, artist, Emilia Plater. PD-Art.
Charles-François Daubigny, Apple Blossoms (1873). Oil on canvas, 231/8 in. x 333/8 in. Courtesy of Image Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Abby Jane Morrell. Frontispiece to Morrell’s Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831 (New York: J. and J. Harper, 1833). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Mary Davis Wallis. From the frontispiece to The Fiji and New Caledonia Journals of Mary Wallis, 1851–1853, ed. David Routledge (Suva, Fiji, and Salem, MA: Institute of Pacific Studies and Peabody Essex Museum, 1994). Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum.
François Pascal Simon Gérard, artist, Porträt der Madame Récamier (1805). Oil on canvas, 225 cm x 145 cm. Musée Carnavalet. PD-Art.
The Strawberry Bed. Wood engraving after Winslow Homer, 9.3 cm x 15 cm. From Our Young Folks (July 1868): 389. Courtesy of Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Single (Hartford: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, c. 1846). Lithograph. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC–USZC4–6020.
Henry D. Thoreau in 1856. From a daguerreotype by Benjamin Maxham. Courtesy of the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.