Engraved Peter Maverick (1 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fair. RARE engraving from noted American engraver Peter Maverick. AERONAUTICS (Antique hand-colored engraving). Plate 111 in top right corner. Depicts Lana's Aeronautic Vessel; Montgolfier's Balloon; Blanchard's Balloon and Charles & Robert's Balloon. Fig.5 is untitled. "Engraved by P.Maverick, Newark, NJ" along the bottom. Dimensions approximately 10 3/8 x 8 ins. undated estimate 1809-1818. Peter Maverick (1780-1831), son of Peter Rushton Maverick and Ann Reynolds, was the most eminent of the Maverick family of engravers and a pioneer in the art of lithography. He lived and worked in New York City and, for more than a decade, in Newark. In 1809 he moved his family and shop from New York to a farm he had purchased on the Newark-Belleville road (now Broadway), later building a cottage on the "drift road" west of modern-day Lincoln Avenue and north of Chester Avenue. Maverick's years as a Newark engraver were among his most prolific, and included the period in which Asher Brown Durand (see below) was his apprentice and business partner. Many signed engravings of this period bear the names of "P. Maverick and Durand." John William Casilear was another distinguished pupil, and Maverick trained at least two of his many daughters, Emily and Maria Ann, and his son Peter Jr. in the trade as well. I HAVE A NUBER OF ANTIQUE BALLOON AND RAILROAD PRINTS LISTED FROM A NEWLY ACQUIRED LOS ANGELES ESTATE. "some marks and spots, see photos" TUR19. Signed by Author(s).