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A. B. DURAND acquired the art admirable line engraver America Art Union Print artist Bank Note engraving Bank-note BIRCH born at Philadelphia Boston Athenæum BUST IN ROBES BUST in uniform C. R. LESLIE C. W. PEALE CHESTER HARDING Church cuted DANIEL HUNTINGTON Delt died draughtsman Engraved in conjunction engraver was born etched F. O. C. Darley Fairman folio FULL BUST FULL FIGURE FULL LENGTH GEORGE WASHINGTON graved HALF LENGTH SITTING HEAD AND BUST HEAD AND FULL HENRY INMAN J. J. BARRALET Jacob Perkins JAMES JOHN NEAGLE left hand line and stipple LINE ENGRAVER London Longacre Mezzotinto miniature painter and engraver painting Penna Pennsylvania Philada Philadelphia Pinxt portrait painter President pupil REMBRANDT PEALE SCHUSSELE stipple manner Street STUART studied SULLY Table taste and ability THOMAS JEFFERSON THOS TRUMBULL U. S. Navy VIEW vignettes W. S. MOUNT WILLIAM York
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Page 144 - He had, not long after his arrival, some work in the way of his original employment, the remembrance of which gratifies the sturdy old gentleman to this day. General Knox, first Secretary of War under the Federal Government, employed Mr. Rollinson to chase the Arms of the United States upon a set of gilt buttons for the coat which was worn by General Washington on the memorable day of his inauguration as President.
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Page 124 - History" has done. He was a saddler, harness-maker, clock and watch maker, silversmith, painter in oil, crayons, and miniature, modeller in clay, wax and plaster ; he sawed his own ivory for his miniatures, moulded the glasses, and made the shagreen cases ; he was a soldier, a legislator, a lecturer, a preserver of animals, a dentist, and a mild, benevolent, and good man.
Page 141 - The Bloody Massacre, perpetrated in King Street, Boston, on March 5, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regiment; engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere, Boston.
Page 137 - ... practice of medicine. In 1769, Rush was appointed Professor of Chemistry in the College of Philadelphia and in 1789, to the chair of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the same institution. Later in 1791, after the merging of the College of Philadelphia with the University of Pennsylvania, he became Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Practice in the university. It was during his tenure of this office that he began to give his course of lectures on psychiatry....
Page 124 - ... miniatures, moulded the glasses, and made the shagreen cases ; he was a soldier ; a legislator ; a lecturer ; a preserver of animals, whose deficiencies he supplied by means of glass eyes and artificial limbs ; he was a dentist ; and he was, as his biographer truly says, a mild, benevolent, and good man.
Page 44 - Self-taught; at 21, he commenced business as an engraver, having previously served an apprenticeship with a silversmith. While a vol. at Cambridge, he visited the battle-ground at Lexington, and on his return to New Haven made an engraving of the action, his first attempt in that art. This is believed to be the first historical engraving executed in America. He executed 3 other historical prints in relation to the expedition to Lexington and Concord.
Page 19 - Preparation for War to defend Commerce. The Swedish Church Southwark with the building of the Frigate Philadelphia.
Page 58 - Episcopacy, doth now subsist within the United States of America, in the persons of the Right Rev. William White, DD, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Pennsylvania ; the Right Rev. Samuel Provoost, DD, Bishop of the said Church in the State of New York, and the Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, DD, Bishop of the said Church in the State of Connecticut.
Page 59 - Gallant Action with Nine of Tarleton's Cavalry in sight of a Troop of Four Hundred Men, Took place in Amelia County Virginia 1781.