Swarthmore College

Swarthmore CollegeRichard Rummell Swarthmore College Re strike engraving from the original plate (c. 1913). Printed on heavy woven paper and hand colored. Plate size: 17 1 4 x 29 At the turn of the century, Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848 1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges. From these watercolors, copper plates were engraved and a limited number of pulls (engravings) were distributed.

Reference: Sabin 47104

(2002) La Harpe’s Post: A Tale of French Wichita Contact on the Eastern Plains

A Huguenot Artist in France

brought a trained ethnologist’s eye to the task

the largest scientific voyage ever mounted by the United States

Spain in the New World

He invented the cordiform or heart-shaped map

Less than a decade later

(edges chipped and expertly renewed affecting areas of the neatline)

Voyage dans l'Amérique septentrionale

Among the first truly “modern” maps of Texas

two largely effaced19th-century French bookplates