CAPE TOWN AND TABLE MOUNTAIN

Hand coloured lithograph: printed area 170 x240mm actual size: 220 x300mm, a very good copy. No date [1856]

Sarony & Company: Born in Quebec City, Napoleon Sarony learned lithography from his father and emigrated to New York in 1836. There, he worked as an apprentice for several lithographers, including Nathaniel Currier. In 1846 Sarony opened a lithographic business in partnership with Henry Major. The company went through a number of alterations in names and partnerships. Until 1853, it was called 'Sarony and Major'. From 1853 to 1857. During the 1850's and 1860's, Sarony & Company published a number of sets of important topographical views, both of foreign lands and of the recently explored American West. For some of the finest examples (such as View of Hong-Kong) Sarony created early colour views by utilizing a second printing with a tint stone. Needless to say, these original lithographs are both historically and artistically valuable.

Wilhelm Heine (1827-1885): A nineteenth century German/American artist, Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine studied at Dresden's Royal Academy of Art and in the studio of Julius Hubner. He then completed his artistic education in Paris, for a period of three years. Wilhelm Heine immigrated to the United States in 1849 and set up a studio in New York. In 1869, 1870 and 1871 he worked at the American consuls in both Paris and Liverpool. After that date Heine returned to his native Dresden and spent his final years as both an artist and a teacher.

Eliphalet Brown Jr. (1816-1886): A nineteenth century lithographer and daguerreotypist, He produced several lithographs and daguerreotypes for the Commodore Matthew C. Perry expedition. http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/sarony_and_company_viewofhongkongfromeastpoint.htm