Swett, Moses (sold)
Moses Swett (1804 - December 20, 1838) was an American artist, lithographer, and draughtsman. Swett worked for a time with the Pendleton Lithography firm of Boston before relocating in 1830 to Baltimore and partnering with George Endicott to found Endicott and Swett, located in Graphic Hall. In 1831 the partners relocated again, this time to New York City. The partnership dissolved in July of 1834, and Swett began to publish independently in New York. In 1837, he relocated to Washington D.C. where he issued several political cartoons. Swett returned to Boston in 1838 where he died of unknown causes on December 20.
1826 Pendleton issue of John Foster's 1677 map of New England, the first map printed in the English Colonies of North America.
A Map of New-England : being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact: Yet doth it sufficiently show the scituation of the country and conveniently well the distances of places : The figures that are joyned with the names of places are to distinguish such as have been assaulted by the Indians from others.
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This is the Moses Swett 1826 edition of John Foster's 1677 map of New England, the first map printed in America. The map, here as an early 19th century lithograph, was originally printed as a woodcut on single plate. Oriented to the West, the map covers the ... (more details)