| Title |
Rider, Alexander |
| Description |
Alexander Rider, was a German or Swiss-born artist, colorist, and engraver, who worked in the lithography trade in Philadelphia
in the early 1830s. Rider probably arrived in the United States before 1808 as the assistant to A. Enslen, botanical collector
for the Austrian emperor. In the 1810s and 1820s, Rider drew book illustrations, including for Wilson's "American Ornithology"
(1825-1833), as well as worked as a miniature and portrait and historical painter. By 1830, he entered the lithographic trade
and delineated genre prints for Kennedy & Lucas and later Childs & Lehman, including the noted "Camp-Meeting" (ca. 1830) showing
a revivalist meeting. Rider continued as an artist in the printing trades into the 1840s and produced plates for Godman's
"American Natural History" (1846).
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Childs & Lehman and Kennedy & Lucas . |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Groce & Wallace, 536-537 |
|
Jackson, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, vol. 1, 165 |
|
Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
|
Peters, 333 |
|
Wilson Bulletin (March 1937): 17-21 |
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WWWAA, 2768 |
