Author

George Field(1777–1854)

George Field is documented in Fuller’s letters (1844). One work is named, all in Letter to Maria Rotch, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1844
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with George Field

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Field in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1844—

Letter to Maria Rotch

p171
analyzed · read
“and of colorists, Field which I had here last winter is an interesting book.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Hudspeth identified George Field's Chromatography (1835), the standard scientific-aesthetic reference on color pigments for artists.