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America’s Grimm Tale:<br />

<strong>Washington</strong> <strong>Irving</strong> & <strong>Sleepy</strong><br />

Hollow’s <strong>Storied</strong> <strong>Landscape</strong><br />

Thomas Connors,University of Northern Iowa


Brothers<br />

Wilhelm<br />

1786-1859<br />

Grimm<br />

Tales (1812-57)<br />

Hansel & Gretel<br />

Snow White<br />

Rapunzel<br />

Jacob 1785-1863


Goethe<br />

1849-1832<br />

Beethoven<br />

1770-1827<br />

Romanticism<br />

Friedrich<br />

1774-1840


Literature<br />

Burns<br />

Sir Walter Scott<br />

1771-1832<br />

Thomas Moore<br />

1779-1852


<strong>American</strong><br />

Literature<br />

Last of the Mohicans (1821)<br />

James Fenimore<br />

Cooper<br />

1789-1851


<strong>Washington</strong><br />

<strong>Irving</strong><br />

1783-1859<br />

Rip Van Winkle (1819)


Legend of<br />

<strong>Sleepy</strong> Hollow<br />

Ichabod Crane<br />

Brom<br />

Bones<br />

Katrina Van Tassel


Headless<br />

Horseman<br />

Karl Musäus<br />

Fairy Tales (1780s)


Old Dutch Church


Pocantico River<br />

The Hollow


Andre<br />

Tappan<br />

Zee<br />

Tarrytown


Hudson School<br />

Thomas Cole<br />

1801-48<br />

Kindred Spirits - 1849<br />

Durand - Cole & Bryant


Abbotsford<br />

Walter Scott


Sunnyside


<strong>Irving</strong>’s<br />

Architecture


<strong>Landscape</strong>


Today


<strong>Landscape</strong><br />

Architecture<br />

Andrew J. Downing<br />

1815-1852


Patriarch


Dryburgh<br />

Final Resting<br />

Place


Chuchyard<br />

Rural<br />

Cemetery


Map


Gompers<br />

Carnegie<br />

Cemetery


“Our use<br />

will not<br />

displace<br />

the old<br />

tenants...”<br />

“… fit<br />

garden<br />

for our<br />

tombs.”<br />

Concord


Concord


<strong>Sleepy</strong><br />

Hollow<br />

Thoreau<br />

Alcott<br />

Emerson<br />

Hawthorne


Industrial<br />

Revolution<br />

Railroad<br />

Croton<br />

Aqueduct


<strong>Irving</strong>’s Death - Nov. 28, 1859


<strong>Irving</strong> Lot


<strong>Irving</strong> & <strong>American</strong> Romanticism<br />

• Literature - Folk Tales,<br />

Historical Fiction<br />

• Art - Hudson School,<br />

<strong>Landscape</strong><br />

• Architecture - Eclectic,<br />

Gothic Revival<br />

• <strong>Landscape</strong> - Garden,<br />

Rural Cemetery<br />

Benson Lossing,<br />

The Hudson


Article<br />

Mortal Remains,<br />

Andrew Burstein &<br />

Nancy Isenberg, eds.<br />

Penn Press,<br />

2003


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