Queen after Osborn "View of Easton, (from Phillipsburg Rock) ..."

James Queen after ambrotypes by H.P. Osborn.  “View of Easton, (from Phillipsburg Rock) Showing part of Phillipsburg, the Lehigh and Delaware rivers, Morris & Delaware Canals, New Jersey Central Belvidere Delaware and Lehigh Valley Rail Roads, the old Delaware bridge and the great double bridge connecting the Lehigh Valley Rail Road with the N. J. Central and Belvidere Delaware Rail Roads.”  From History of the Lehigh Valley… 

Easton, PA: Bixler & Corwin, 1860.  6 x 14 3/8 (image).  Lithograph by P.S. Duval & Son.  Full margins.  With folds as originally issued.  Very good condition.  Rare.  Not listed in Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America.  A/A

The print was drawn by Philadelphia artist James Fuller Queen based on ambrotypes by H.P. Osborn.  James Queen, a native Philadelphian, was apprenticed as a lithographer to the firm of Lehman & Duval in 1835, when he was just fifteen.  Queen soon became an accomplished lithographic artist, establishing himself as Duval’s principal draftsman.  He drew views, disasters, portraits, music covers, advertisements, certificates, illustrations and any other subject Duval needed.  During the Civil War, when artists were in short supply, Duval wrote to a friend: “James Queen is still with us and is now one of the best artists in the country.”