[Thomas Richardson and American Bank Note Company scrapbook]
Richardson, Thomas
1802-approximately 1881
Butler, J. M. (John M.)
printer
Bannister, James
1821-1901
engraver
Burt, Charles Kennedy
1823-1892
engraver
Cushman, George Hewitt
1814-1876
engraver
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr
1822-1888
artist
Delnoce, Louis
d. ca. 1888
engraver
Durand, Asher Brown
1796-1886
artist
Hall, Henry Bryan
1808-1884
etcher
Hamilton, James
1819-1878
artist
Leutze, Emanuel
1816-1868
artist
Phillibrown, Thomas
engraver
Prud'homme, John Francis Eugene
1800-1892
engraver
Rice, W. W.
(Engraver)
engraver
Sartain, John
1808-1897
engraver
Sartain, Samuel
1830-1906
engraver
Schussele, Christian
1826?-1879
artist
Smillie, James D.
1833-1909
engraver
Whitechurch, Robert
1814-approximately 1880
engraver
American Bank Note Company
printer
Bald, Cousland & Co.
printer
Baldwin, Bald, & Cousland
printer
Toppan, Carpenter & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
printer
Alexander, John
bookseller
Claghorn, James L. (James Lawrence)
1817-1884
associated name
Henry, Alexander
1823-1883
associated name
Stillé, Charles J. (Charles Janeway)
1819-1899
associated name
still image
Graphic
Booksellers' labels (Provenance)
Engravings -- 1850-1870
Illustrations -- 1850-1870
Mezzotints -- 1850-1870
Portrait prints -- 1850-1870
Proofs -- 1850-1870
Scrapbooks -- 1850-1870
Specimens -- 1850-1870
Steel engravings -- 1850-1870
Vignettes -- 1850-1870
vp
[ca. 1854-ca. 1861]
1854
1861
monographic
eng
605 prints in 1 scrapbook : mezzotints, steel engravings, engravings, etchings ; scrapbook 45 x 36 cm (16.75 x 14.25 in.)
Scrapbook compiled by Philadelphia banknote printer Thomas Richardson containing proofs of illustrations after the work of F. O. C. Darley from Susan Fenimore Cooper's "Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper" (New York, 1861); portrait illustrations, some from J. B. Longacre's "National Portrait Gallery" (probably 1854 edition); and vignette specimens of the American Bank Note Company and their predecessor companies. Cooper illustrations depict scenes on the frontier and ship decks, with Native Americans, and of battles; deathbeds; and of informal meeting from his works The Oak Openings, The Redskins, The Chainbearer, The Pathfinder, The Red Rover, The Monikins, Deerslayer, Homeward Bound, Lionel Lincoln, The Pilot, Last of the Mohicans, The Wept Wish-ton Wish, The Spy, and Wing and Wing. Several also contain animals. Sitters in portrait illustrations include Lewis Cass, Giuseppe Garibaldi, David Ramsay, James Kent, Thomas C. Pope, John McLean, Stephen Decatur, Samuel Rogers, Rev. William Capers, John Binns, Washington Irving, and Noah Webster.
Specimen subjects include portraits of prominent government officials, Civil War figures, businessmen, clergymen, royalty, and "fancy heads" of named and unnamed women and children; allegorical figures and scenes, including Bounty, Liberty, Arts, Agriculture, and Commerce; state and symbolic seals and insignia; naval and maritime imagery, including sailors, sailing vessels, and wharf and dock views; modes and venues of transportation, including steamboats, trains, streetcars, and rail stations; white and Black men artisans, laborers, and tradesmen, including drivers, farmers, sheep shearers, and furriers; industrial views of factory workers, mineworkers, and female loom workers, as well as mills and factories along canals and riverfronts; women at work feeding livestock, milking cows, and at a sewing machine; municipal buildings and storefronts; southern imagery, including enslaved people at work, palmetto trees, plantations, and ports; patriotic, historical, military, and scenic imagery; frontier views and scenes with Native Americans; and animals. Specimens with titles include Star of Empire (Princess Eugenie of Sweden) River Source, The Guardian, Locomotive, Autumn Fruit, Sheep Feeding, The Yarn, Trusty, Picking Grapes, The Sickle, The Death Blow, and Propeller Loading. Some specimens used as the backs of national currency.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date based on publication date of specimens.
Manuscript notes on front free end paper: Aunt Tillie Richardson (cousin Florence's aunt) in pencil; Scrapbook No. 3 in ink.
Lincoln Monument Association of Philadelphia certificate pasted on inside front cover and issued to Thos. Richardson on July 4, 1865, signed C. J. Stille, Secy; Alex. Henry, Prest.; and James L. Claghorn, Cashr. Certificate number 6004 and illustrated with bust-length portrait of Lincoln. Charles J. Stillé, was a Philadelphia lawyer who served on the United States Sanitary Commission, and was later Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Alexander Henry was the mayor of Philadelphia. James L. Claghorn was president of the Commercial National Bank in Philadelphia and an art collector.
Stationer's label pasted on back cover: John Alexander, Stationer and Printer, 52 South Fourth St.
Various artists, engravers, and printers including F.O.C. Darley, G. H. Cushman, J. Hamilton, Asher B. Durand, C. Schussele, John Sartain, Samuel Sartain, Jas. D. Smillie, E. Prudhomme, H. B. Hall, T. Phillibrown, R. Whitechurch, J. M. Butler, James Bannister, Charles Kennedy Burt, Louis Delnoce, W. W. Rice, American Bank Note Company, Toppan, Carpenter & Co, Baldwin, Bald & Cousland, and Bald, Cousland & Co.
Several of the specimens contain a specimen number and/or title.
Few of the specimens contain a copyright statement.
Specimen #312 (p. 81) and specimen #280 (p. 71) after the work of Emanuel Leutze.
Thomas Richardson (b. ca. 1802) was a Philadelphia plate printer who served as the foreman of printing at the Philadelphia branch of the American Bank Note Company formed in 1858. He retired from the trade by 1880.
Binns, John
1772-1860
Portraits
Capers, William
1790-1855
Portraits
Cass, Lewis
1782-1866
Portraits
Cooper, James Fenimore
1789-1851
Illustrations
Decatur, Stephen
1779-1820
Portraits
Princess, daughter of Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway
Eugénie
1830-1889
Portraits
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
1807-1882
Portraits
Irving, Washington
1783-1859
Portraits
Kent, James
1763-1847
Portraits
McLean, John
1785-1861
Portraits
Pope, Thomas C.
Portraits
Ramsay, David
1749-1815
Portraits
Rogers, Samuel
1763-1855
Portraits
Webster, Noah
1758-1843
Portraits
African American men
African Americans
Agriculture
Allegories
Animals
Art
Artisans
Business people
Children
Clergymen
Commerce
Decks (Ships)
Factories
Farmers
Farm life
Fighting
Frontier & pioneer life
Government officials
Indians of North America
Indigenous peoples
United States
Industry
Laborers
Mills
Municipal buildings
Patriotism
Piers & wharves
Plantation life
Sailing ships
Sailors
Sewing machines
Enslaved persons
United States
Storefronts
Transportation
Women
Work
Southern States
Civilization
1775-1865
United States
History
Civil War
Military personnel
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