1844 hand colored lithograph by EDWIN WHITEFIELD City of Hudson NY w botanical

Description: Curious hand colored lithograph of Hudson New York with a superimposed botanical watercolor. The plant /flower is Bellwort . On verso is written in pencil ........ View Near the City of Hudson , New York c 1844 (shows a sailboat and steam boat/tug on the Hudson River ). SIGNED in tiny lettering at lower right E. Whitefield LISTED Edwin WHITEFIELD 1816-1892) see bio below Image is very good , surroundings are browned. SAME PRINT ON EBAY offered FOR $ 225. !!! Sheet size is 9 1/2" x 7" Shipping is 8. On the net there is a HUGE amount info on this artist. Artist Edwin Whitefield (1816-1892) emigrated to the United States from Great Britain around 1837. He is best known for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England and for his lithographed views of North American cities. Indeed, over four decades he produced an estimated 59 lithographic views of cities and towns as far apart as Maryland, Quebec and Minnesota.“From 1846 to 1857, Whitefield traveled across Canada and the northern United States sketching city views for his series of folio lithographs Whitefield’s Original Views of (North) American Cities (and Scenery)…. The series was printed by a variety of printers—F. Michelin, Endicott and Company, Jones and Newman, and Buchanan and Company. Whitefield was involved in all aspects of the printmaking process, from designing to printing and selling. Later, he would do much of his own printing. Whitefield sold most of his work by subscription. As an itinerant artist with a family to support, advance subscriptions guaranteed a degree of financial security. He was an unabashed promoter of his own work, often employing business agents such as Smith Brothers and James T. Palmatary to this end.” (Pierce and Slautterback, p. 182)After several years in the Midwest before and during the Civil War, during which time he produced views in Minnesota and Illinois, Whitefield returned to Massachusetts and settled in Dedham.This lithograph is from "American Wild Flowers in their Native Haunts" by Emma C. Embury. "Bellwort” was drawn and hand colored by Edwin Whitefield and shows the natural landscape / environment of the plant, "View near the city of Hudson, New York”. American Wildflowers was printed in 1845 by D Appleton and Co, New York. The lithographs were printed by Lewis & Brown, New York, who were one of the first to produce chromolithographic illustrations for publications. Measurers 9.5" x 7 "and signed E. Whitefield.

Price: 99 USD

Location: Montgomery, New York

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