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Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846 – Antique Wall Art

Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846, 1854 — antique lithograph
Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846, 1854. Antique lithograph from the Books & Writers collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846

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Thoreau's Walden Pond, the setting of his 1854 book, appears here as a reduced survey plan rather than a landscape view. The map was drawn in 1846, the year Thoreau began living by the pond, and this lithograph was printed to accompany the first edition of Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Its precise outline of the shoreline and depths lets readers picture the small lake that anchored a book about simple living and close observation of nature.

Created / published1854
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenrePlans 1840-1850.Book illustrations 1850-1860.Lithographs 1850-1860.
NotesIllus. in: Walden; or, life in the woods, 1854.
SubjectsLakes & ponds--Massachusetts--1840-1850.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 834 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161937

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