John Cheney (engraver)

John Cheney (1801-1885) was an engraver in Boston, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia in the 19th century.[1][2][3] He travelled in Europe in the 1830s. His brothers were Ward Cheney and Seth Wells Cheney, who married the writer, Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney.[4] Examples of Cheney's work are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[5] In 1833, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician.

Portrait of John Cheney

References

1. Boston Directory. 1848, 1852
2. Sally Pierce (1997), Early American Lithography, Boston, Mass: Boston Athenaeum, ISBN 0-934552-64-9, OCLC 37048588, OL 708373M, 0934552649
3. "John Cheney's Work." New York Times, Aug. 23, 1885
4. Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney. Memoir of Seth W. Cheney, artist. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881
5. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Collections. Retrieved 2011-12-21

Further reading

• Sylvester Rosa Koehler. Catalogue of the engraved and lithographed work of John Cheney and Seth Wells Cheney. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1891

External links

• WorldCat. Cheney, John 1801-1885
• Library of Congress. Everett cigarros puros superiores, 1856. Engraved by Cheney
• New York Public Library. Edward Everett. Engraved by Cheney after R.M Staigg
• New York Public Library. Fitz-Greene Halleck. Engraved by Cheney
• New York Public Library. W.E. Channing. Engraved by Cheney
• Smithsonian Works by Cheney