Object Number 1975.0006

Object Name

Print (Lithograph)

Title

SETTIN' ON A RAIL.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Special Fund for Collection Objects

Creator (Role)

Edward Williams Clay (Lithographer)
1799-1857

Henry R. Robinson (Printer and 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

1837

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left, in the image; C
2. Inscription; Lower left and right; Printed & Published by H.R. Robinson. 52 Courtlandt St: N.Y.-
3. Inscription; Lower center; Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1837, by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerk's Office of Dis,\t Court of the U. States of the Southern District of New York.

Subjects

Social/political commentary; Andrew Jackson

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

11.5 (H) , 17 (W) , 10.6 (Image H) , 15.7 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

29.3 (H) , 43.2 (W) , 10.6 (Image H) , 15.7 (Image W)

Publisher Summary

Robinson, Henry R.

Publication Date

1837

Place of Publication

New York, New York

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Object Description

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