Nature and nation: Britain and America in the 19th century: David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.

From: History Today | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In 1859, the year of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the American artist Frederic Edwin Church's huge, magnificent painting 'The Heart of the Andes' was unveiled in New York City to intense excitement. It celebrated the conjunction of nature and art preached by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the epoch's most admired naturalist. As Rebecca Bedell has shown, the overall composition and almost every pictorial detail of the work had 'its counterpart in Humboldt's words'. Church had steeped himself in Humboldt's travel writings, visited his favourite South American scenes, ...

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