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Book Review
Zwischen Karten: Alexander von Humboldt’s ‘Atlas géographique et physique des régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent’ (Ars et Scientia, 25)
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 473-474
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Reviewer:
Grüner, Magdalena (Grüner, Magdalena )
Subjects
subjects:
Humboldt, Alexander von / Maps
subjects:
Topography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Zwischen Karten: Alexander von Humboldt’s ‘Atlas g ographique et physique des r gions  quinoxiales du Nouveau Continent’ (Ars et Scientia, 25) By Amrei Buchholz. 267 pp. incl. 16 col. + 28 b. & w. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2020),  54.50. ISBN 978–3–11–063807–3. | :
Exhibition Review
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1095-1097
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Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
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museums and institutions:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States
places:
North America / Central America / South America
subjects:
Humboldt, Alexander von / Enlightenment / Environmental protection / Slavery / Colonialism / American art / Hudson River School (art movement) / Travel accounts / Social history
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subjects:
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture By Eleanor Jones Harvey. 448 pp. incl. 215 col. + 22 b. & w. ills. (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, and Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ and Oxford, 2020), £62. ISBN 978–0–691–20080–4. | :
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Attributed works:
13. Alexander von Humboldt, by Friedrich Georg Weitsch. 1806. Oil on canvas, 126 by 92.5 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington).
Attributed works:
14. Géographie des plantes équinoxiales, by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. 1805. Handcoloured print, 61 by 91.4 cm. (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; exh. Smithsonian, American Art Museum, Washington).
Attributed works:
15. Heart of the Andes, by Frederic Edwin Church. 1859. Oil on canvas, 168 by 302.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington).