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As noted by John Carbonell, “It is usually claimed that there are two states of the West/Yeager engraving; we can tag them respectively the “handkerchief” state and the “finger” state. In the first, General Lambert is holding a handkerchief to his face. In the second, the handkerchief is gone and Lambert’s exposed index finger points upward.” (John Carbonell, “Prints of the Battle of New Orleans,” in Prints of the American West (1983) (Marquand NE505.P55) Why?

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The folklore around the print states that officers in the Army complained about the view of a soldier crying for his lost comrade and demanded that the handkerchief be removed. The pointing figure was the best the engraver could do without altering more of the composition. But which Army was complaining? Lambert was a British officer and this print shows the battle from the British point of view. It is, however, an American print published in Philadelphia. Mac Os X 10 5 Leopard Iso Ppc Rating. Was it the American Army that demanded the change in the British soldier? Was Lambert too sympathetic a figure when the focus of the image was meant to be the death of the British troops?

In addition to the complex iconography, there are five variants of the print, which we often categorize into two first states (with handkerchief) and three second states (without handkerchief). We believe our second print is the 2nd state, 2nd variation. Late in his career, William Lizars published a magnum opus to demonstrate his facility with different forms of ink printing. The sixty-one year old Scottish artist was a master of aquatinting and artistic engraving but we sometimes forget he was also an expert in the use of ornamental types and letterpress printing techniques. Lizars is first remembered as the engraver J.J. Audubon (1785-1851) chose in 1826 to realize Birds of America. Although his team of engravers went on strike shortly after the project began and Audubon was forced to move on, the Edinburgh shop was quickly back in business and produced important works of graphic art well into the Victorian era.

Lizars began working in his father’s printing house and continued to run the business after his father died. They produced book-plates, bank notes, and in 1818, a pictorial record of the Regalia of Scotland following their rediscovery by a Royal Commission headed by Walter Scott (1771-1832). Lizars engraved landscapes plates for N.G. Phillips (1822-24), anatomical plates for medical texts, natural history, science, and poetry. He constantly experimented with new techniques, such as a method of etching away the background of a copper plate to produce a relief surface similar to that in a wood engraving. Here are a few examples.

For his own book, Mellerio chose Bonnard to illustrate the volume with a lively cover and frontispiece. His essay has, happily, been translated to English in its entirety by Dennis Cate and can be read in: Phillip Dennis Cate, The Color Revolution: Color Lithography in France, 1890-1900; with a translation by Margaret Needham of André Mellerio’s 1898 essay La lithographie originale en couleurs (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Art Gallery, in cooperation with the Boston Public Library, c1978). Graphic Arts Collection (GA) Oversize 2009-0243Q. The prints became so popular that Heath was nicknamed Captain Heath and linked for the rest of his life with the British Army (biographers struggled to place him in a regiment or battalion although Heath never enlisted).

His designs were reissued over the years in various mediums including panoramas, etchings, aquatints, lithographs, and many pirated reproductions. In 1815, luxury print dealer Edward Orme (1775-1848) turned the battle scenes into thirteen circular miniatures, issued inside a bronze medallion with a relief of Wellington on one side and a seated Angel of Victory on the other. The project may have been suggested by Heath, who enlisted the help of his Lambeth neighbor aquatintist Matthew Dubourg to complete the designs. Orme issued several variations on this series, including Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes of Personal Valour, Bravery, and Particular Incidents which occured to the Armies of Great Britain and her Allies, in the last long-contested war, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo (1819). “The forty coloured aquatints are from drawings by J. Manskirch, W. Of the engravings, thirty are by M.

Dubourg, seven by Clark and Dubourg together, and two by Fry and Sutherland together.”. Charles Williams (active 1797-1850), A Ward of Chancery, & a Commission of Lunacy Superseded, March 16, 1807. Etching with hand coloring. Graphic Arts Collection GA 2012.02667 This print, surprisingly, refers to the Criminal Lunatics Act of 1800, which required the indefinite detention of mentally ill offenders. It was passed thanks to chief counsel Thomas Erskine (1750-1823), who argued that an actor named James Hadfield (17) was insane when he tried to shoot King George III during a performance at the Drury Lane Theatre. Erskine convinced the judge that Hadfield had only pretended to kill the King because the actor wanted to die and knew he would be killed for the attempt. Since the laws of the time had no provision for holding or treating criminals who were found to be insane, a bill was rushed to the House of Commons so that Hadfield would not be set free.