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Captain Watson's Travels in America: The Sketchbooks and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 Book

Who was Captain Joshua Rowley Watson, and why should anyone care about him? According to Kathleen A. Foster, a curator at the Indiana University art museum, the 19th-century Watson was not only a gentleman and an officer of the British navy, but also an accomplished watercolorist and keen observer of American life in the early part of the previous century. In Captain Watson's Travels in America, Foster has collected this obscure gentleman's art and journals to provide a complete record of Watson's American experience. After taking a leave of absence from the service in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, Watson, accompanied by his wife, traveled for 18 months along the eastern seaboard from Boston to Washington, D.C. His impressions of the countryside and the people he met there are pleasant but not terribly profound.Read More

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    From 1816 to 1817, British naval captain Joshua Rowley Watson visited friends in Philadelphia and toured the northeastern United States. During that time he filled two sketchbooks and a diary with impressions of travels that took him to Washington, Boston, and the wilds of the Hudson River valley. Watson's record proves to be a charming and graceful observation of the American scene. With a style reminiscent of eighteenth-century British topographical draftsmen, Watson's watercolors joined the flow of British art in America that ultimately formed and inspired the Hudson River school.

    Kathleen Foster has now gathered this previously unpublished material into a handsome volume that presents a fresh view of American art, architecture, landscape, and society in the Jeffersonian era. Her book comprises an extended essay on Watson's life and travels, a discussion of his artistic style, a guide to the diary, and the complete diary itself. Of the more than 140 drawings and watercolors, the 18 color and 90 black-and-white reproductions from Watson's work allow an appreciation not only of his considerable talent but also of the early American landscapes he encountered, from scenes along the Schuylkill to Lake George to the Chesapeake.

    A Barra Foundation Book

  • 0812233840
  • 9780812233841
  • Kathleen A. Foster
  • 1 October 1997
  • University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 408
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