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Detail from Sketches among the Catskill Mountains
Thomas Nast (1840–1902)
Published in Harper’s Weekly, July 21, 1866
Collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society
By creating works that showed the stunning beauty of New Hampshire, Gerry and his peers helped fuel the rise of tourism to the state. Illustrated periodicals like Harper’s Weekly further publicized landscape tourism to a national audience eager to see the world depicted in these paintings. In this vignette celebrated illustrator Thomas Nash depicts artists at work out-of-doors, a sight 19th-century travelers to New Hampshire could expect to see.
