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Print (Color lithograph)

  • Title:

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

  • Category:

    Prints and Maps

  • Creator (Role):

    Prof. Frank Childs (Draftsman, painter and publisher)

    John Henry Bufford (Lithographer)

  • Place of Origin:

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

  • Date:

    1873

  • Materials:

    Ink; Paper (wove)

  • Techniques:

    Lithography

  • Museum Object Number:

    1973.0539


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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)
Not listed in Peters, America on Stone.

John Henry Bufford (Lithographer)
07/27/1810-10/08/1870
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

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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