James Irvin,1800-1862,American Politician,Agriculturist,Ironmaster,Pennsylvania

Title: James Irvin / designed by William Croome ; the portrait from a daguerreotype by [Marcus] Root & on stone by A[lbert] Newsam ; P.S. Duval, lith., Philadelphia.
Creator(s): Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, lithographer
Related Names:
Croome, William , designer
Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888 , photographer
Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864 , artist
Date Created/Published: [Philadelphia] : Published by G. Hood, c1847.
Summary: An emblematic campaign portrait of former congressman James Irvin, who in 1847 was the Whig candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. The candidate is shown full-length, standing beneath a tree in an open field. On the ground next to him is a plough, a symbol of agriculture also featured prominently on the state's seal. In the landscape beyond Irvin are various symbols of Pennsylvania's industry and progress, including a farmer plowing his field, a mill town with smoking chimneys, a steamboat on a river, and a locomotive. Croome's portrait is based on the type established in John F. Francis's 1838 portrait of Pennsylvania governor Joseph Ritner, likewise reproduced as a print by Newsam for P.S. Duval. Croome reverses Francis's composition and introduces a more modern industrial landscape with steamships and locomotives in the distance. Judith W. Hansen describes a version of the Ritner portrait print where the head is replaced (i.e., redrawn) with that of James Irvin, in the Pattee Library at Pennsylvania State University.
Notes:
Title from print.
'Entered ... 1847, by P.S. Duval ...'
Hansen, no. 13
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1847-10.
Subjects:
Irvin, James.
Pennsylvania.
Ritner, Joseph.
Lithographs--1840-1850.
Portrait prints--1840-1850.
Bookmark /2003690754/
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