''Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion'' was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
, Massachusetts, from 1851 to 1859. The magazine was founded by
Frederick Gleason
Frederick Gleason (c.1817 – November 6, 1896) was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-nineteenth century. He is best known for establishing the popular illustrated weekly '' Gleason's Pictorial'', at the time an innovation in Ameri ...
in 1851.
The publication name was changed to ''Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion'' for 1855, after managing editor
Maturin Murray Ballou
Maturin Murray Ballou (April 14, 1820March 27, 1895) was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded ''Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Gleason's Pictorial'', was the first editor of the ''Boston Daily Glo ...
bought out the interest of Gleason. The first issue as Ballou's was 6 January 1855. The magazine absorbed the ''Illustrated News'' of New York in 1853. It ceased publication in 1859.
The ''Pictorial'' featured artists such as
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in ...
, and authors such as Giddings H. Ballou, Susan H. Blaisdell, Alice Carey,
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., Sophronia Currier, Mrs. S. P. Doughty,
Francis A. Durivage, Aglaus Forrester, Mrs. H. C. Gardner,
Joseph Holt Ingraham, Grace Lee, Mary A. Lowell, Mary L. Meany, Ellen Alice Moriarty, Arthur Morton, Frances P. Pepperell, Mary E. Robinson, M. V. St. Leon, Frederick Ward Saunders, Sue M. Scott, Maurice Silingsby, Frederick Stanhope, Horace B. Staniford, John Thornberry, Winnie Woodfern, and Joseph Wolf.
Images
File:Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion Subscription Terms 1853.jpg
Image:Gleasons 18oct1851 cover.JPG, Issue for 18 October 1851, showing Gleason's Publishing Hall, Tremont Street
Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tremont Street begins at Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of ...
, Boston
Image:1851 Antislavery BostonCommon Gleason.png, Anti-Slavery meeting on the Boston Common
The Boston Common is a public park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest city park in the United States. Boston Common consists of of land bounded by five major Boston streets: Tremont Street, Park Street, Beacon Street, Charl ...
(Gleason's, May 1851)
Image:Gleasons 12july1851 cover.JPG, Grand display of firemen, Boston Common, 1851
Image:1853 4thJuly FaneuilHall Gleasons.png, Fourth of July festivities at Faneuil Hall
Faneuil Hall ( or ; previously ) is a marketplace and meeting hall near the waterfront and Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Opened in 1742, it was the site of several speeches ...
, Boston, 1853
Image:GleasonsPict 1854 3.JPG, Gleason's, 1854
Image:1859 BostonStreetCharacters byWinslowHomer Ballous.jpg, Boston Street Characters, by Winslow Homer (Ballou's, July 9, 1859)
Image:Winslow Homer - Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion - Google Art Project.jpg, Wood-engraving of Paul Morphy
Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master.
A prodigy, Morphy emerged onto the chess scene in 1857 ...
, after Winslow Homer (Ballou's, July 2, 1859)
File:Franklin College 1851.jpg, Franklin College in Athens, GA, US
References
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Further reading
* ''Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion''
v.1(1851)
v.2(1852)
v.3(1852)
v.4(1853)
v.5-6(1853–54).
* ''Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion''
v.7-8(1854–55)
v.9-10(1855–56)
v.11-12(1856–57)
v.13-14(1857–58)
v.15-16(1858–59)
v.17(1859).
External links
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