Print (Color lithograph)

Museum Object Number 1973.0539

Object Name

Print (Color lithograph)

Title

THE METTOWEE VALLEY./ FROM SLATE HILL GRANVILLE, N. Y.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Anonymous

Creator (Role)

Prof. Frank Childs (Draftsman, painter and publisher)

John Henry Bufford (Lithographer)

Creator Notes

Not listed in Peters, America on Stone.References: Last, The Color Explosion, pp. 47-9; Peters, America on Stone, pp. 118-27; Sally Pierce, Boston Lithography, 1825-1880 (Boston: The Boston Athenæum, 1991). Listed in New York City directories: 1835-363 152 Broadway 1836-37 114 Nassau Street 1837-38 134 Nassau Street 1838-40 136 Nassau Street, corner of Beekman Street Listed in Boston directories: 1841-42 204 Washington Street, with B. W. Thayer and J. E. Moody 1843-44 204 Washington Street, with B. W. Thayer 1845-51 204 Washington Street, with B. W. Thayer in 1851 and A. G. Dawes in 1845 1851-55 265 Washington Street 1855 260 Washington Street 1856-64 313 Washington Street 1867 34 Chauncy Street (as Bufford Brothers?) *sons continued business after 1870 1871 490 Washington Street *address through 1873 n.d. 141 Franklin Street, and 93 Washington Street

Date of Birth

07/27/1810

Date of Death

10/08/1870

Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Date

1873

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; DRAWN PAINTED & PUBLISHED BY PROF. F. CHILDS.
2. Inscription; Center beneath image; Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1873 by Frank Childs in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington
3. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; J. H. BUFFORD'S LITH. WASH.\N ST. BOSTON.

Subjects

City view; Landscape

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography

Dimensions (inches)

25.625 (H) , 39.5 (W) , 21.83 (Image H) , 37.4 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

65.088 (H) , 100.3 (W) , 21.83 (Image H) , 37.4 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Childs, Prof. Frank

Publication Date

1873

Watermark

none

Coloring

Colored stones

Object Description

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