Object Record
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Metadata
Title |
Residence of John Donnelly of San Mateo, 1878 |
Object Name |
Lithograph |
Description |
Residence of John Donnelly of San Mateo, 1878. Moore & DePue lithograph by Grafton Tyler Brown. Hand-painted framed lithograph depicting the residence of John Donnelly of San Mateo. Image shows a white house in a large yard with pathways and vegetation throughout. A weather vane and stable sit to the right of the house and two figures play croquet in front right of the yard. Two figures are standing in the pathway in front of the house. Two figures in a single-horse drawn carriage pass by on a road in the foreground. To the right of the yard is a fenced-in field where cattle graze and in back right is a train on tracks with hills in the background. Printed on white paper, mounted under glass into a brown wooden frame with an off-white mat with a green and black edge. |
Date |
1878 |
Creator |
Brown, Grafton Tyler |
Role |
Artist |
Creator |
G.T. Brown & CO. LITH., S.F. |
Role |
Lithographer |
Creator |
Moore & DePue |
Role |
Publisher |
Catalog Number |
1998.117.008 |
Dimensions |
H-17.125 W-20.125 D-0.875 inches |
Dimension Details |
Overall. |
Collection |
6Three-Dimensional Collection |
Inscription Text |
"Moore & DePue, Pub. S.F. G.T.Brown & Co.Lith.S.F. / Residence of John Donnelly , San Mateo . California ." (beneath image); "THE / FRAMING PLACE / (415) 341-4437 / 4220 Olympic Ave. San Mateo, CA" (sticer on back bottom right corner) |
Notes |
Grafton Tyler Brown (February 22, 1841 – March 2, 1918) was an American painter, lithographer and cartographer. Brown was the first African-American artist to create works depicting the Pacific Northwest and California. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Tyler_Brown 1/5/2022] Moore & DePue. In 1878, publishers Elliott S. Moore and James De Pue saw opportunity in San Mateo County... Brown divided production of sixty-four views with Britton & Rey, and the larger firm produced... twenty-two views along the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way, including fourteen in the county seat. While Britton & Rey canvassed the more prestigious areas, Brown sketched forty-one farms, residences, and businesses. Of fourteen views that filled two pages, Brown did eleven. Each lithographer used distinctive corner ornaments. Furthermore, Britton & Rey did the county map, while Brown provided the illustrated title page as his forty-second view. Brown's views illustrate his more sophisticated sense of contour and color of mountains, as well as the interplay of sky, cloud, and shadow, while Britton & Rey emphasized foreground people, horses, and houses and their shadows. Brown's shading of hills and clouds adds more depth than is normally found in scenes where the artist's view was expected only to inventory the property of the paying customer. After seven months of production, Moore and DePue praised the "skill and artistic finish" of the plates included in their Illustrated History of San Mateo County, and through the Redwood City newspaper on November 30, 1878, declared that "we are now delivering [them] to our subscribers." For those with second thoughts, the publishers offered, "a limited number can be purchased of our delivering agents while on their route. Price ten dollars." Today, this county history is in great demand. - Robert J. Chander, San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown (2014), pages 146-148. [https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/69670/california-san-mateo-county-moore-de-pues-illustrated-brown-co-depue-moore 1/5/2022] |
Search Terms |
Lithographs Residences-San Mateo County San Mateo Donnelly, John Horse Drawn Vehicles Horses Cattle Trains Hills Carpentry Building |
Subjects |
Houses Weather vanes Stables Croquet Carriages & coaches Horses Cattle Grazing Hills Trains Lithographs Lithography |
People |
Donnelly, John |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Assistance League of San Mateo County |