This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...1772, at Ravenstruthers, a village in Lanarkshire, Scotland. His passion for art evinced itself at an early period of life. Being left an orphan at fifteen, he went to reside with an elder brother, at Liverpool, who much desired that he should devote himself to mercantile pursuits and op-ALEXANDER LAWSON. 97 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...1772, at Ravenstruthers, a village in Lanarkshire, Scotland. His passion for art evinced itself at an early period of life. Being left an orphan at fifteen, he went to reside with an elder brother, at Liverpool, who much desired that he should devote himself to mercantile pursuits and op-ALEXANDER LAWSON. 97 posed his decided inclination to engraving, which he persevered in attempting in the hours not required by the business demands of his brother's establishment. Loving art better than trade and taking views of political questions, quite different from those of his brother, he determined to go to America, and arrived at Baltimore in May, 1792, where he remained but a few days before going to Philadelphia, in which city he finally settled. His first works of any consequence were four plates for Thompson's Seasons, executed for Thos. Dobson, bookseller, which attracted much notice. Some time in the year 1798, Mr. Lawson formed a friendship with Alexander Wilson, for whose work on ornithology, and its continuation by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, he engraved all the best plates. The late John N eagle, the eminent portrait painter, was accustomed to term him " the best engraver of birds in America." He also engraved some plates for a proposed work on quadrupeds, by the late George Ord, a work on conchology, by Prof. Haldeman, and another on the same subject, by Dr. Amos Binney, the drawings for the two latter works being made by Mr. Lawson's second daughter. Extremely industrious and of immense application, his works are very numerous, including plates for annuals, maps, charts, illustrations of works on chemistry, botany, mineralogy, etc., all executed in the best manner. He pursued his art until within ten days of his death, which happened at...
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