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1832 - 1901. Known for: Expedition artist, lithography, landscape painting.
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Dewitt Clinton Hitchcock was a draftsman who worked in 1847-1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1850-51 in Cincinnati, and again in Boston in 1852. He traveled with Ephraim George Squier to Central... Read full biography
Dewitt Clinton Hitchcock was a draftsman who worked in 1847-1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1850-51 in Cincinnati, and again in Boston in 1852. He traveled with Ephraim George Squier to Central America in 1853, making a number of landscape views, which he lithographed for Squier's 'Notes on... Read full biography
Dewitt Clinton Hitchcock was a draftsman who worked in 1847-1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1850-51 in Cincinnati, and again in Boston in 1852. He traveled with Ephraim George Squier to Central America in 1853, making a number of landscape views, which he lithographed for Squier's 'Notes on Central America' (1855). Due to interest in the Panama Canal project at that time, such images received considerable public attention. Going beyond being just pictures of scenic beauty, part of their... Read full biography
Dewitt Clinton Hitchcock was a draftsman who worked in 1847-1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1850-51 in Cincinnati, and again in Boston in 1852. He traveled with Ephraim George Squier to Central America in 1853, making a number of landscape views, which he lithographed for Squier's 'Notes on Central America' (1855). Due to interest in the Panama Canal project at that time, such images received considerable public attention. Going beyond being just pictures of scenic beauty, part of their appeal was that they encompassed issues of national and economic concern. Investors backing canal and shipping ventures at the time were likely to have purchased, if not commissioned, pictures of the local scenery. Hitchcock is known to have sailed from... Read full biography
Dewitt Clinton Hitchcock was a draftsman who worked in 1847-1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1850-51 in Cincinnati, and again in Boston in 1852. He traveled with Ephraim George Squier to Central America in 1853, making a number of landscape views, which he lithographed for Squier's 'Notes on Central America' (1855). Due to interest in the Panama Canal project at that time, such images received considerable public attention. Going beyond being just pictures of scenic beauty, part of their appeal was that they encompassed issues of national and economic concern. Investors backing canal and shipping ventures at the time were likely to have purchased, if not commissioned, pictures of the local scenery. Hitchcock is known to have sailed from New York in February 1853, and by April had begun field operations in Nicaragua, San Salvador, and Honduras, along with Squier and others... Read full biography
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Keywords (14)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Virginia Before 1900
- •West Virginia Before 1920
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs