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Birth
1795
Death
1856
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania
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maritime expedition images, topographical, portrait paintings, engravings
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Painted in Latin America
Artists who painted Hawaii
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Engraver and portrait painter, Joseph Drayton traveled widely as an official artist with the Wilkes Expedition, the first official maritime exploration sponsored by the United States government.
Joseph Drayton began working as an engraver in Philadelphia as early as 1819 when his engraving of a Scottish landscape by Caroline Schetky was published in the Analectic Magazine. The following year, other engravings by Drayton appeared in the Analectic.
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