Bowdoin College Texasaudubon and an early and unique

and an early and unique work by the first North American-born mapmaker

natural scientist and geographer-astronomer

and Arkansas

Aquatint and etching with original hand coloring heightened with gum arabic Blind stamp lower margin center

perhaps because it was familiar to those used to seeing the world as Ptolemy described it

Bowdoin College Texasaudubon and an early and uniqueRichard Rummell Bowdoin 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.