Object Number 1973.0019

Object Name

Print (Lithograph)

Title

OBEDIAH PUZZLED.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

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).

Place of Origin

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1836-1843

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower center; Pub.\d by H.R. Robinson, 52 Courtlandt St: N.Y.

Subjects

Social/political commentary; Quaker

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography

Dimensions (inches)

12.6 (H) , 17 (W) , 9 (Image H) , 13.1 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

32.1 (H) , 43.1 (W) , 9 (Image H) , 13.1 (Image W)

Publisher Summary

Robinson, Henry R.

Place of Publication

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 342, p. 480.
[Book] Peters, Harry Twyford. 1931 America on stone: the other printmakers to the American people; a chronicle of American lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its beginning, shortly before 1820, to the years when the commercial single-stone hand-colored lithograph.
• See pp. 337-342.
[Book] Murrell, William. 1967 A History of American Graphic Humor. 2 vols.
• See vol. 1: 115, 117.