Item 224: Photograph of an Engraving titled, “Northumberland Pennsylvania,” Engraved by George Lehman, no date
Item — Box: 22, Folder: 47
Dates
- Created: no date
Creator
- Lehman, George, c. 1830-1870 (Person)
Access:
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Photograph of Engraving
Condition Note:
Good
Measurements:
8 ½ in. x 11 in.
Title:
Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Description:
This is a photograph of an engraved landscape depicting Northumberland, Pennsylvania. There is a tall tree encompassing the image from the left as it gives perspective to the large town far below. Northumberland is located in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. In 1772, a man named Reuben Haines founded the town and attempted to settle an English village. This land was purchased from the Iroquois in the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. Northumberland was evacuated during the American Revolution and eventually resettled in 1784. This piece was painted and engraved by George Lehman.
George Lehman, born in c. 1803 in Switzerland, was a lithographer, engraver, aquatintist, and “ornamental painter,” in Philadelphia around 1825-1870. After immigrating to the United States as a “printer,” he arrived at the port of New York on the ship named “Howard” on June 11, 1824. Lehman was also a skillful landscape painter, and exhibited views of not only Switzerland, but Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by 1825. He had also served as the assistant to John James Audubon when he visited Florida from 1831-1832. Lehman eventually partnered with Childs & Lehman from 1833-1834 and later with a French lithographer, P. S. Duval, where they operated Lehman & Duval from 7 Bank Alley from 1835-1837.
Location:
Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
{annotation}
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Pennsylvania
Painted & Engraved by George Lehman.
Creator
- Lehman, George, c. 1830-1870 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu