Distribution of the American Art - Union Prizes...
date: label: date made
content: 1847
label: date made
content: 1848
name: label: printer
content: Sarony & Major
label: delineator
content: D'Avignon, Francis
label: original artist
content: Matteson, Tompkins Harrison
notes: label: Description
content: The American Art Union operated as a lottery between 1839 and 1852, exhibiting and raffling paintings and providing its members with an annual engraving by subscription. It is estimated that more than 50,000 prints were distributed before the lottery was declared illegal and the Union disbanded. Early print collector George Perkins Marsh was a members of the American Art Union, although he specialized in European old master prints.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. W. W. Buckley, 1961
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.21010
label: catalog number
content: 21010
label: accession number
content: 235649
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Planographic; Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)