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George Washington,
Gilbert Stuart (After),
William Chapin (Maker),
James Webster (Publisher),
1835,
Ink on paper; etching
William Chapin
American, 1801 - 1888
BiographyChapin worked as a cartographic engraver in New York and Philadelphia. He is purported to have been the first to engrave a map of the United States on steel. In 1849 he left engraving and became the Director of the Philadelphia Institute for the Blind.