Object Number 1977.0220.001

Object Name

Print (Lithograph)

Title

GEORGE FOX./ Founder of the Society of Friends, usually called Quakers.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

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

Creator (Role)

Albert Newsam (Draftsman)
05/20/1809-11/20/1864
Newsam was born deaf and mute. At the age of 11, William P. Davis, posing as his deaf-mute borther, took Newsam to Philadelphia to exploit his artistic talents. Bishop White, president of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, rescued Newsam and provided him with an education. In 1827, Cephas G. Childs apprenticed Newsam at his engraving, and later, lithography firm. Eventually, after Childs left the business in 1834, Newsam became the principal artist at the successor firm, owned by George Lehman and Peter S. Duval. Newsam was particularly adept with portraits, which he often drew from life in the early part of his career, and then from daguerreotypes and photographs later on. Until he was forced to retire in 1859 because of blindness and a paralizing stroke, Newsam was the foremost portrait lithographer working in Philadelphia.

Lehman & Duval (Lithographer and publisher)
1834-1837

Place of Origin

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1835

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Center beneath image; On Stone by A. Newsam,
2. Inscription; Bottom center; Lithog. & Pub..\d by Lehman & Duval N..\o 8 Bank Alley Philadelphia./ Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1835 by Lehman & Duval in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography

Dimensions (inches)

13.2 (H) , 10.19 (W) , 9.4 (Image H) , 6.78 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

33.6 (H) , 25.87 (W) , 9.4 (Image H) , 6.78 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at right. W at top.

Publisher Summary

Lehman & Duval

Publication Date

1835

Place of Publication

No. 8 Bank Alley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

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. 191, p. 294.