Born in Strathaven, Scotland, Mary Moran established a reputation as one of the foremost 19th-century landscape etchers in the United States. Many of her etchings were made on location directly onto the copper plate. She finished about 70 landscape etchings that included scenes of England and Scotland as well as New Jersey, Long Island, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Her father, Archibald Nimmo, was a weaver, and when her mother died when Mary was five years old, the father brought her and her (showing 500 of 2918 characters). |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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