Project Gutenberg 2017-01-11 Public domain in the USA. 150 Lanman, Charles 1819 1895 Letters from a Landscape Painter Trouting among the Catskills -- A Spring day -- South Peak Mountain -- A sleepless night -- Cole's imaginative paintings -- Lake Horicon -- Burlington -- Trip to Portland -- Moosehead Lake and the Kennebeck -- Lilly Larnard -- Louis L. Noble -- The unhappy stranger -- A week in a fishing smack -- Trip to Watch Hill -- Our New York Painters -- A song of memory. This e-book was generously made available by FadedPage.com (http://www.fadedpage.com) "Letters from a Landscape Painter" by Charles Lanman is a collection of descriptive essays written in the mid-19th century. The work captures the author's experiences and reflections as a professional landscape painter, showcasing his appreciation for nature and the tranquility it offers. Lanman's narrative likely encompasses both his adventures in search of picturesque scenes and his philosophical musings about art and life. The opening of the work introduces the author as a passionate lover of nature who embarks on various expeditions to capture the beauty of the American landscape. He begins his journey in the Catskill Mountains, detailing an expedition focused on fishing, where he recounts encounters with local characters like Peter Hummel, a wild and adventurous guide. Lanman vividly describes the scenery, personal reflections, and the joy of solitude found in nature, setting the tone for a series of letters that explore both the external beauty of the landscape and the internal depths of his thoughts and emotions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 62.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848 Larnard, Lilly Noble, Louis Legrand, 1813-1882 Landscape painters -- United States -- Correspondence Poets, American -- Biography Painters -- New York (State) -- Biography East (U.S.) -- Description and travel PS Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Travel Writing Category: American Literature 380282 2025-08-21T12:27:27.618148 text/html 357509 2024-10-23T01:37:36 text/html 247095 2025-08-21T12:27:34.945114 application/epub+zip 256584 2025-08-21T12:27:30.071167 application/epub+zip 205619 2025-08-21T12:27:28.957184 application/epub+zip 358429 2025-08-21T12:27:38.322650 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 329085 2025-08-21T12:27:33.671141 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278073 2022-09-24T14:42:23.249792 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 334822 2025-08-21T12:27:26.928193 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 314985 2024-10-23T01:37:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18247 2025-08-21T12:27:38.468600 application/rdf+xml 14338 2025-08-21T12:27:29.048127 image/jpeg 2066 2025-08-21T12:27:29.003160 image/jpeg 233574 2025-08-21T12:27:27.651136 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia