F the author of this beautiful work, we regret to say but the most meagre particulars are available. No encyclopedia known to us, not even those devoted to the fine arts, contains his name, and the few particulars we give were obtained from the records of the National Academy of Design, New York.

George Harvey was born in Taunton, England in the last years of the eighteenth century, came to the United States in 18- and died in Philadelphia. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design and exhibited paintings there for two years. Afterwards he seems to have followed his original profession of architect, and is said to have designed several public buildings. On the tablet affixed to "Sunnyside," the home of Washington Irving, at Irvington, N. Y. appears:

Remodeled, 1835

GEORGE HARVEY, ARCHITECT.

It must have been then that grew up between them the friendship which led to Irving's share in his book which he refers to in its preface.

The work has never before been re-published and is extremely scarce, but three copies being known to me, in the United States. One was sold lately at auction for $108.

HARVEY'S SCENES

IN THE

PRIMEVAL FORESTS

OF

AMERICA,

AT THE

FOUR PERIODS OF THE YEAR,

SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN & WINTER,

ENGRAVED FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAINTINGS,

Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE HARVEY, 16, FOLEY PLACE, GREAT PORTLAND STREET, & Messrs. ACKERMANN & Co. STRAND.

PRINTED BY JOHNSON & Co., 10, BROOKE STREET, HOLBORN.

1841.

TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, VICTORIA, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND,

MADAM, The honor Your Majesty has conferred upon my labors by your Royal Patronage, and by the gracious letter, written by your command, expressing the gratification which my original drawings have afforded to you and to Your Illustrious Consort, I shall ever duly estimate; as well as the flattering distinction afforded to me, in being permitted to make this DEDICATION, which I now do, conceiving it to be the duty of every individual, however humble his means may be, to use them as a sacred trust, towards increasing and strengthening those friendly ties, which should ever exist between two nations of one origin and language.

The pursuit of my art has afforded me many delightful rambles, and at times when I have been alone in the solitudes of the boundless forest, whelmed in profound and awful silence, I have rested upon the limb of some fallen tree, to indulge in thought; and England, the birth-place of our common language, laws, and literature, has been the theme; I viewed her standing before the world, accredited of PROVIDENCE, as having been the means of diffusing a greater measure of justice over the human family than any other people;

FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS DECLARED BY THE INSPIRED WRITER TO EX