Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason

Frederick Gleason

Frederick Gleason was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-19th century. He is best known for establishing the popular illustrated weekly Gleason's Pictorial, at the time an innovation in American publishing...

 in 1851. It became Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou

Maturin Murray Ballou

Maturin Murray Ballou was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded Gleason's Pictorial; was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe; and wrote numerous travel books and works of popular fiction.-1820s - 1840s:Ballou was born in Boston in 1820, to parents Hosea...

 bought out the interest of Gleason. The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. The Pictorial featured artists such as Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....

, and authors such as:

• Giddings H. Ballou
• Susan H. Blaisdell
• Alice Carey
• Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
  Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
  Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. was an American writer of popular fiction during the mid-19th century. His work was published in the New York Ledger, The Flag of Our Union, The Weekly Novelette, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and elsewhere.- Brief biography :Cobb was born in Waterville, Maine to...
  
  
• Sophronia Currier
• Mrs. S.P. Doughty
• Francis A. Durivage
  Francis Alexander Durivage
  Francis Alexander Durivage was an American author.He was a contributor of poems, humorous articles, short stories, and sketches for magazines, often written under the pen name "Old Un." In connection with W. S. Chase he translated Alphonse de Lamartine's "History of the Revolution of 1848." At a...
  
  

• Aglaus Forrester
• Mrs. H.C. Gardner
• Joseph Holt Ingraham
  Joseph Holt Ingraham
  Joseph Holt Ingraham was an American author.- Biography :Ingraham was born in 1809 in Portland, Maine. He spent several years at sea, then worked as a teacher of languages in Mississippi. In the 1840's he published work in Arthur's Magazine...
  
  
• Grace Lee
• Mary A. Lowell

• Mary L. Meany
• Ellen Alice Moriarty
• Arthur Morton
• Frances P. Pepperell
• Mary E. Robinson
• M.V. St. Leon
• Frederick Ward Saunders

• Sue M. Scott
• Maurice Silingsby
• Frederick Stanhope
• Horace B. Staniford
• John Thornberry
• Winnie Woodfern

Further reading

• David Tatham. A Drawing by Winslow Homer: Corner of Winter, Washington and Summer Streets. American Art Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 40-50.

External links

• An index of illustrations by artist Winslow Homer that appeared in Ballou's Pictorial
• http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a06000/3a06300/3a06374u.tif
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/lm/193/