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Title Watson, C. A. (Charles Augustus)
Date fl. 1833-1837
Description Charles Augustus Watson, born in Philadelphia to merchant Joseph Watson and Margaret Rodman, worked as a lithographer and printer with his brother John Frampton Watson in Philadelphia between 1833 and 1837. In 1835, an advertisement for the new lithographic establishment of J. F. & C.A. Watson at 62 Walnut Street appeared regularly in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and emphasized "that cards &c. engraved on stone for all the practical purposes of business, are equal to those on copper, and at one third the cost." Their earliest known lithographic plates, "Grizzly Bears," "Ground Squirrel," and "Argali," were published in the third volume of "Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports"(1833). They also printed sheet music covers and maps, along with a lithograph of Chadds Ford delineated by Swiss artist and lithographer John Caspar Wild in 1834. By 1837, Watson withdrew from the business and began to be unlisted in business and city directories.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Watson, John Frampton and Wild, John Caspar
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Groce & Wallace,
Jones, Genealogy of the Rodman Family 1620-1886 (Philadelphia, 1886), 84.
Last, 237
Peters, 397
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1835
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