biografía de Joseph Alexander ADAMS (c.1803-1880)

Lugar de nacimiento: New Germantown, NJ

Lugar de defunción: Morristown, NJ

Direcciones: NYC, c.1825-47; Morristown, NJ

Profesión: Wood engraver, illustrator

Estudios: served apprenticeship with a printer in New Germantown; self-taught in wood engraving, with encouragement from Alexander Anderson

Exposiciones: NAD, 1833-38

Asociaciones: ANA

Comentarios: He worked as printer after moving to NYC c. 1825. Adams later enjoyed considerable success as an illustrator. His best known work was the set of 1,600 illustrations for Harper's Illuminated Bible (1843).

Fuentes: G&W; DAB; N.Y. Herald, Sept. 17, 1880, obit., gives his age at death as 76; Am. Art Review, I (1880), obit., 238-42, 551; Cowdrey, NAD; NYCD 1826, 1828-47 (listed as J.A. Adams 1828-30, as John A. Adams 1831-32, otherwise as Joseph A. Adams; in 1847 listed as late engraver" and his name does not appear thereafter in NYCD which suggests he had moved to Morristown by 1847)."