Object Number 1960.0357.005

Object Name

Print (Lithograph)

Title

STEPHEN GIRARD.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Albert Newsam (Lithographer)
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.

Bass Otis (Painter)
1784-1861

Childs & Inman (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; Lower right; Drawn by A. Newsam.
2. Inscription; Lower left; Painted by Bass Otis.
3. Inscription; Lower center; From Childs & Inman's Press.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography

Dimensions (inches)

19 (H) , 13.9 (W) , 13.6 (Image H) , 10.4 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

48.3 (H) , 35.2 (W) , 13.6 (Image H) , 10.4 (Image W)

Publisher Summary

Childs & Inman

Publication Date

1832

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

None

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 115, p. 44.