Washington Irving
(1783 - 1859) |
1822 - 32: Resides in Paris, Madrid, and Dresden 1822: Bracebridge Hall published.1828:
Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus published. 1832: The Alhambra published.which made Irving an icon in Spain. Irving returns to New York City and tours American West on horseback. 1835:
A Tour on the Prairies published in The Crayon Miscellany. It was Irving's successful attempt to reconnect with America after a 17-year trip abroad. Irving purchases Sunnyside.
1836: Irving settles at Sunnyside. |
American Literature |
1831: Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) published Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 1836: Philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803 - 1882) published Nature: Addresses & Lectures. |
Visual Arts |
1820s: Hudson River School is established. Landscape artists depict scenes among the Hudson River valley.
1838: Thomas Cole painted Schroon Mountain. Adirondacks. |
Music |
1830: An early American popular song, "Jim Crow" is sung by Thomas Rice.1841: German composer Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) presents his Symphony No. 1 "The Spring" in
Leipzig. . |
Architecture |
1835: Washington Irving purchases Sunnyside in Tarrytown, New York, a two -room Dutch farm house.1840s: Romantic styles continue to grow in popularity including Gothic Revival and
Italianate styles (to c. 1880). |
New York State History |
1825: Erie Canal opens which links New YOrk to the west via the Hudson River1827: Final phase of emancipation for slaves in New York 1832: First horse-drawn trolley appears in New York.
1838: Washington Irving declines Tammany Hall's nomination for Mayor of New York |
American History |
1821: American population 9.6 million. 1829: First American patent on typewriter.1839: U.S. Senate debates slavery. Henry Clay,
who hopes to run for president as a Whig condemns abolitionists as instigators of a civil war. |
International History |
1831: Great cholera pandemic beginning in India spreads from Russia into Europe including Scotland.1839: First Opium War begins between China and Britain. |
