About Henri Lovie

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    Henri Lovie was born in Berlin Prussia in 1829. He immigrated to the United States and established himself in Cincinnati as a portrait and landscape painter, designer, and illustrator by the 1850s. He drew the illustrations for The Ohio Railroad Guide (Columbus, 1854), Zoe; or the Quadroon's Triumph By Elizabeth Livermore (Cincinnati, 1855), Brother Mason, the Circuit Rider; or Ten Years a Methodist Minister (Cincinnati, 1855), The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor-House by G.W. Quinby (Cincinnati, 1856).

    From 1856 to 1859, he and Charles Bauerle maintained an engraving company, and together they produced the illustrations for Man-of-War Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy (Cincinnat...

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