Chicquesalunga
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1845
name: label: printer
content: Richard, John
label: original artist
content: Lawson, Helen E.
notes: label: Description
content: Lithotint designed by Helen Lawson (c1808-1853) and printed by John H. Richard in Philadelphia about 1845. Lawson was a talented scientific illustrator who learned printmaking from her father Alexander Lawson, a successful engraver. Richard, also a scientific illustrator, introduced the technique of the lithotint in the US. The estate pictured, "Chicquésalunga," belonged to Samuel Stehman Haldeman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,whose book on freshwater mollusks was illustrated by Helen Lawson..
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22804
label: catalog number
content: 22804
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Lithotint
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Graphics; Planographic; Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: lithograph (overall production method/technique)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in