Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Augustus Hoppin, the son of a China trade merchant, was a book and periodical illustrator and inventor, noted for the aesthetic beauty of his work and for the invention of a process of chemical engraving that revolutionized newspaper illustration by facilitating daily illustrations. For a brief period, he was a Survey Artist, and unlike many of them, injected humor into his drawings.
Hoppin earned degrees from Brown University and Harvard Law Schoo (showing 500 of 2050 characters). |
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