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An Attempt to Burn John Harris at the present site of Harrisburg in the Year 1720
Artist
Ralph Trembly
(American, 1817 - after 1863)
After
William S. Reeder
Portfolio/SeriesO'Connor/Yeager Collection
Date1839
MediumLithograph with hand coloring
DimensionsSheet: 22 1/4 x 28 3/8 in. (56.5 x 72.1 cm)
Credit LinePartial gift and purchase from John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager
Object number86.691
Collections
ClassificationsWork on Paper
Object NameLithograph
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Nineteenth
Inscribedbottom center: An Attempt to Burn John Harris at the present site of Harrisburg in the Year 1720
Exhibition HistoryMADE in PA on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, June 1 – September 8, 2024; From Your Town to Ours: Pennsylvania Prints from the O'Connor-Yeager Collection Revisited, Palmer Museum of Art, June 4 – August 11, 2013; Selling the Susquehanna, Palmer Museum of Art, September 30 – December 21, 2008; Making History, Palmer Museum of Art, June 17 – August 30, 1997; Pennsylvania Prints from the Collection of John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, January 13 – March 30, 1980.ProvenanceRalph M. Yeager and John C. O'ConnorPublished ReferencesGroce and Wallace, The New York Historical Society Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, Yale, 1979, p. 636.
Hansen, J.W., Pennsylvania prints from the Collection of John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager: lithographs, engravings, aquatints, and watercolors from the Tavern Restaurant, University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980, cat. no. 14.