Editing The Pilgrim's Progress (section)

=== Art and poetry ===
A number of illustrations created by Henry Melville appear in the Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books under the editorship of [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]]. Each is accompanied by a poem, either by [[Bernard Barton]] or by Miss Landon herself. These plates are as follows:
* 1835
** {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/The River of the Water of Life|The River of the Water of Life]]}} (L. E. L.)<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA18|section=picture and poetical illustration|page=19|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
** Christian and Hopeful Escaping from the Doubting Castle (Bernard Barton)<ref>{{cite book|last =Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA28|section=poetical illustration and picture|page=26|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
** Christian Got up at the Gate (Bernard Barton)<ref>{{cite book|last =Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA34|section=poetical illustration and picture|page=34|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
** The Shepherd Boy in the Valley of Humiliation as {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/The Shepherd Boy|The Shepherd Boy]]}} (L. E. L.)<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA70|section=poetical illustration and picture|page=54|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
* 1836
** The Pilgrims (Bernard Barton)<ref>{{cite book|last =Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA12-IA14|section=picture|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA12-IA12|section=poetical illustration|pages=16-17|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
** The Land of Beulah (Bernard Barton)<ref>{{cite book|last =Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA32|section=poetical illustration|pages=30-31|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA34|section=picture|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
** Destruction of the Doubting Castle (Bernard Barton)<ref>{{cite book|last=Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PT94|section=picture|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Barton|first=Bernard|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PT96|section=poetical illustration|page=45|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
** {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836/The Palace Called Beautiful|The Palace Called Beautiful]]}} (L. E. L.)<ref>{{cite book|last=Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PT130|section=poetical illustration|page=54|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2dBbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PT132|section=picture|year=1835|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
* 1837
** {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837/The Delectable Mountains|The Delectable Mountains]]}} (L. E. L.)<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA22|section=picture|year=1836|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA24|section=poetical illustration|page=13|year=1836|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>

''The Pilgrim's Progress'' was a favourite subject among painters in 1840s America, including major figures of the [[Hudson River School]] and others associated with the [[National Academy of Design]]. [[Daniel Huntington (artist)|Daniel Huntington]], [[Jasper Cropsey]], [[Frederic Edwin Church]], [[Jesse Talbot]], [[Edward Harrison May]], and others completed canvases based on the work. [[Thomas Cole's]] ''[[The Voyage of Life]]'' was inspired by ''The Pilgrim's Progress.''<ref>Cole was reading ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' as he worked on this series. Paul D. Schweizer, "The Voyage of Life: A Chronology" in ''Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life'' (Utica, New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1985).</ref>

In 1850, Huntington, Cropsey, and Church contributed designs to a [[moving panorama]] based on ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', conceptualized by May and fellow artist Joseph Kyle, which debuted in New York and travelled all over the country.<ref>Jessica Skwire Routhier, Kevin J. Avery, and Thomas Hardiman Jr., ''The Painters' Panorama: Narrative, Art, and Faith in the Moving Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress'' (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2015).</ref> A second version of the panorama, organized by Kyle and artist Jacob Dallas, premiered in 1851.<ref>Routhier et al, ''The Painters' Panorama''.</ref> The second version exists today in the collections of the [[J.G. Deering House|Saco Museum]].