author
George Washington Carleton
1832–1901
A lively 19th-century New York publisher and sketch artist, he helped bring popular humor and fiction to a wide readership while also turning his own travels into illustrated books. His career moved between the worlds of magazines, publishing houses, and travel writing.
2 Audiobooks
Our Artist in Cuba Fifty drawings on wood. Leaves from the Sketch-book of a traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5.
by George Washington Carleton
Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868
by George Washington Carleton
About the author
Born in 1832, George Washington Carleton worked in New York as both a publisher and an artist. Sources on his books and publishing career describe him as a caricaturist and sketch writer as well as a businessman, and they show that his own drawings appeared in periodicals before he became widely known in publishing.
In 1857 he entered the book trade as a partner in Rudd and Carleton. By 1861 he was running the firm under his own name, G. W. Carleton, and his publishing house became associated with many well-known humorists and popular writers of the period. Bibliographic records also confirm that he wrote and illustrated travel books, including Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers, drawn from journeys in the 1860s.
Carleton died in 1901. Even in brief surviving records, he stands out as a versatile figure of 19th-century literary culture: part publisher, part illustrator, and part traveler, with a talent for turning observation and wit into books.