Narrative Im[press]ions: 200 Years of Printed Illustrations November 14, 2016 - June 24, 2017. ... which began in 1450 with the invention of moveable type by Johannes Gutenberg and ended in the 1830s ...

Bridget Sloan was a widowed mother of two sons and a daughter who resided in Lexington, Ky and wrote a series of letters to one son Theodore (also called Thomas) while he lived out of state. The ...

But in the late 1830s, William Sharp, an English painter, drawing teacher and lithographer, immigrated to Boston with a printing technology that had been devised in Europe. It promised to enable ...