Object Number 1983.0163

Object Name

Print (Lithograph)

Title

Ch Carroll of Carrollton

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

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.

Thomas Sully (Painter and publisher)
06/19/1783-11/15/1872

Childs & Inman (Lithographer and publisher)
12//1830-1834
References: Peters, America on Stone, p. 136. Listed in Philadelphia City Directories: 1831 lithographers, southeast corner of Walnut and 4th Streets 1833 lithographers, corner of Walnut and 5th Streets

Place of Origin

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

Date

1832

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Center below legend; Painted by T. Sully in 1826_ Newsam Del. Childs & Inman Lith..\rs
2. Inscription; Center below legend; Published by T. Sully,& Childs & Inman, 1832. Philadelphia.
3. Inscription; Bottom center; Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1832 by Childs & Inman in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography

Dimensions (inches)

13.3 (H) , 9.91 (W) , 12.6 (Image H) , 7.6 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

33.9 (H) , 25.18 (W) , 12.6 (Image H) , 7.6 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H right of center. W at bottom. No plate marks.

Publication Date

1832

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Object Description

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