BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA.
Prints and Maps
Fanny F. Palmer (Lithographer)
Henry R. Robinson (Publisher)
Joseph Horace Eaton (Design inspiration)
North America
1847
2019.0018
Object Number2019.0018 |
Print (Lithograph)
BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle
Fanny F. Palmer (Lithographer)
1812-08/20/1876
Fanny Palmer began working for Nathaniel Currier (later Currier & Ives) about 1851, and is today credited with over 200 signed lithographs and countless others unsigned.
Henry R. Robinson (Publisher)
References: Peters, America on Stone, 337-42. (H. R. Robinson's trade card at 52 Nassau Street illustrated on p. 13).
Listed in New York City Directories at the following addresses:
1833-34 carver & gilder, 52 Cortlandt Street
1835 Fleetwood & Robinson, corner of Nassau and Spruce Streets
1836-37 caricaturist, 52 and 48 Cortlandt Street
1837-42 caricaturist, 52 Cortlandt Street (and 1839-41: 2 Wall Street)
1842-43 caricaturist, 52 Cortlandt Street
1843-48 lithographer, 142 Nassau Street
1848-49 lithographer, print and caricature publisher, 142 Nassau Stret and 31 Park Row
1849-50 lithographer, 31 Park Row
1850-51 lithographer, 11 Theater Alley
Robinson also had an office on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., and worked in partnership with Anthony Fleetwod under the name of Fleetwood & Robinson, corner of Nassau and Spruce Streets (1835).
Joseph Horace Eaton (Design inspiration)
North America
1847
Measurements in mat board: (W) 40 in., (H) 30 in.
Text available soon.