Sketching the Mid-Atlantic
James Queen
(1820 or 1821-1886)
River view with factory
Watercolor on paper,
ca. 1857
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Old Quarantine Station,
Mouth of the Schuylkill
Watercolor on paper,
May 10, 1857
LC-USZC4-5944
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Philadelphia was an important center of printmaking in America
and James Queen became one of the city's most proficient and prolific
practitioners during the nineteenth century. He worked primarily
for P.S. Duval, a pioneer in the art of lithography, who called
him "one of the best artist in the country."
The Carson Collection includes hundreds of lithographic portraits,
landscapes, and street scenes drawn by Queen as well as numerous
pencil and watercolor sketches created during his travels through
the mid-Atlantic States.
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