William Hamilton Gibson: artist—naturalist—authorAdams, John Coleman
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William Hamilton Gibson: artist—naturalist—author
Adams, John Coleman
Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896; Illustrators -- United States -- Biography
Hovering Mist and Cloud. Lifting and creeping in fantastic forms, above
the lake. Wild Mountain Pass. Hermit’s Ravine. See reference. Ruskin in
literary memorandum. Shelley’s “Cloud.”
Mountain Veterans. Gnarled spruces.
Mountain Flowers. The heath family, clothing the rugged mountains.
Mountain Fruits. “Propitiating the Mountain-gods
[Illustration: _The Roxbury Road_]
by a sacrifice of their fruits.” Thoreau. Supper of blue-berries.
Thoreau.
The Trickling Mountain Spring. “Amy’s Grotto.”
A Dewdrop on leaf (vignette-idea; or tail-piece).
Primeval Elements. Indian Legends, etc. Story of a Fountain. Primeval
spring and incident. Hawthorne.
A Trickling Passage. Drops trickling down a spray of Fumitory (Adlumia)
over rock.
A Recluse. A shy wood flower.
Indian Pipe--legend?
Loiterings among mossy boulders and ferns.
The Wood-bird’s Bath.
The Harebell.
A Fungus. Some beautiful specimen of Hydnum Agaricum or--
Through the Mossy Groove (bole)--to the old Trough.
Water Trough. This subject must come in book. Make view from above
conduit, and looking out through verdure upon road from back of trough.
See Hawthorne’s “Town Pump.” “David Swan.”
Waste Water Running along road and under. Plank Bridge (with roadside
ford) bordered with tall Galingales, Cat-tails etc.
The Meadow Stream (place after mountain-lake?)
The Meadow Rue (shadow or silhouette).
Sensitive Fern (one of the most antiquated forms of existing ferns).
Cardinal Flower.
A Border Tangle. Galium. Rue.
Coils of Gold. The Jewel-weed (or some other plant). Strangled by the
golden dodder. The dodder is mentioned in Lowell’s “Threnodia” as an
emblem of love. It is a questionable sort of love that hangs on by the
teeth. “Deadly gripe of gold” (Hawthorne).
Hemlock cones and Chickadees.
An Ambuscade. Leaf-nest of large Arachnid.
The Alders.
Gathering Cowslip-greens (combine with picture of plant).
_The Trout Brook_
The Angler. (Consult Izaak Walton. “Contemplative Man’s Recreation.”)
Beauties (good subject for tail-piece).
The Water-mill. Children playing with toy-wheel. See sketch made at
Cumberland, Me.
A Trickling Flume. A mossy flume perched on tall beams, embowered in
leafy branches and overgrown with weeds. See photo and sketch of
“Haunted Mill” with mill in distance.
The Sawmill (combine cider-mill with same? Washington).
“Highland Stream tamed by human cunning.” Hawthorne.
Riding on Sawmill Carry. Children riding out over abyss on the
log-carry.
Under the Mill (old wheel, etc.).
Sheepwashing.
Life under the Water. (Crawfish; leopard-frog, etc.) Under the Water.
Battle of dragon-fly and lizard. Caddis-worms and nests.
The Slender Foot-bridge--“Dangerous passage.” Bubby fishing; three or
four minnows on string. Lovers.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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