Sartain, John, 1808-1897
Existence: 1808 - 1897
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1897
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
"Men of Progress -- American Inventors" engraving
Collection
Accession: 1980-202
Abstract:
Christian Schussele (1824-1879) was an artist and teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. John Sartain (1808-1897) was a Philadelphia printmaker and engraver, and director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The engraving is a group portrait of nineteen nineteenth-century American inventors and industrialists, collected around a table with examples of their inventions, and beneath a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
Dates:
1863
