American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . Alexander Anderson, aged 92. Drawn by August Will. Engraved by Elias J. Whitney for the Childs Paper, 1867, published by the American Tract Society. Alexander Anderson was born on the 21st of April, 1775, two days after the battle ofLexington, in the same year that Bewick (then twenty-two years of age) received the premiumof the Society of Arts, in London, for his engraving of The Huntsman and Hound, afterwardsprinted in an edition of Gays Fables. Andersons father was a printer, a Scotchman, but a. ON THE AMAZON. DRAWN BY
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . Alexander Anderson, aged 92. Drawn by August Will. Engraved by Elias J. Whitney for the Childs Paper, 1867, published by the American Tract Society. Alexander Anderson was born on the 21st of April, 1775, two days after the battle ofLexington, in the same year that Bewick (then twenty-two years of age) received the premiumof the Society of Arts, in London, for his engraving of The Huntsman and Hound, afterwardsprinted in an edition of Gays Fables. Andersons father was a printer, a Scotchman, but a. ON THE AMAZON. DRAWN BY J. WELLS CHAMPNEY. AMERICAN ART 405 stanch supporter of the Colonial side, and a sufferer for the cause. Young Andersons taste forart he himself attributed to his mother, who was in the habit of drawing for his amusementwhen he was a child. Prints also came before him (Hogarths and others) through his fathersbusiness. These prints, he writes in one of his letters, determined my destiny. Suchdetermination, one can see, was also helped by his getting hold of some type-ornaments, whichgave him a notion of at least one kind of print-production. At school he amused himself by copying engravings. Then, reading in Rees Cyclopedia ofthe process employed, he got a silversmith to roll him out some copper cents; and with agraver made of the back-spring of a pocket-knife, ground to a point, started himself as amateurengraver on copper. He was twelve years old when he began; and proud enough, there is nodoubt, when he had scratched out a head of Paul Jones and — he tells
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