Visual Interpretations
70. Christopher Pearse Cranch. Caricature sketch of Emerson as a transparent eyeball: “Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent Eye-ball,” [1837?].
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Ink on paper. Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, University of South Carolina. This drawing, based on lines from Nature (1836) in which Emerson describes his mystical sense of union with the natural world, is without question the most famous drawing from the Transcendentalist period. Another version is printed in Miller’s Christopher Pearse Cranch and His Caricatures of New England Transcendentalism (Harvard, 1951).
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