Plate, Erie Canal
notes: label: Description
content: Ralph Stevenson of Staffordshire, England produced this whiteware plate around 1830. Captain Basil Hall used a camera lucida to draw this scene of the Erie Canal at Buffalo, which was later included in the book “Forty Etchings from Sketches Made with the Camera Lucida in North America in 1827-1828.” William Home Lizars engraved the etching-plate used to transfer-print the scene to the plate. A lace and floral border rings the plate
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Cobridge
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: America on the Move
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content: Domestic Furnishings
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ellouise Baker Larsen Collection of American Historical Staffordshire China
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.62.926A
label: catalog number
content: 62.926A
label: accession number
content: 171126
label: collector/donor number
content: L 319
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plate
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, black (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: transfer printed (overall production method/technique)