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Last Name Thurwanger

Given Name Martin T.

alt. Names M. T. T. ;

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Year born 1820 c. in the Alsace region of France

Year died 1890

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Education trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and was a student of lithography under Bernard-Roman Julien (1802-1871)

Country of Activity France

Worked for J. Rothschild: Les Chevaux de Course. Historique des Etalons Pur Sang Anglais et Français et des Juments Françaises les plus Celèbres Ayant paru sur le turf de 1764 a 1887, Paris 1899 ; S. F. Touchstone (Alias Goeffry) ;

Patronage Smithsonian Institution

Collaborators lithographer -> Max Rosenthal in Philadelphia ; draughtsman V. J. Cotlison ;

Techniques animal, geographical, topographical, and zoological chromolithography ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://www.oldenglandgallery.com/en/quadri/horses_1_38/atlantic_222.html ;

Archival sources www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/pdf/gra0106.pdf ; http://lcpdams.librarycompany.org:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79852&local_base=GEN01 ;

Published sources Philadelphia on Stone, Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 4151 ;

other M. T. worked as a lithographer & mezzotint engraver in Paris before traveling to Philadelphia on a commission by the Smithsonian Institution with his apprentice, ->Max Rosenthal; from 1849-54 active in the USA, then he returned to France

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