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[John Heathcoat inventor of the knitting machine] – Antique Print

[John Heathcoat inventor of the knitting machine], 1850 — historic print
[John Heathcoat inventor of the knitting machine], 1850. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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John Heathcoat is the subject here, though the record's "knitting machine" is a mismatch: he is best known for the bobbinet lace machine he developed in Devon in the early 1800s. Mid-nineteenth-century Japanese printmakers often produced images of Western inventions, which reached Japan through limited Dutch trade contacts. The sheet came to the Library of Congress as a gift from Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne in 1930. Its attribution to Utagawa Hiroshige is uncertain, because the artist dates listed in the record do not fit the 1850 date.

Created / published1850
CreatorUtagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist.
Medium1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33 x 23 cm. (block) 35.5 x 25 cm. (sheet).
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 163; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 42; typescript caption on mount: Earlier control number: 2236.3-13. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHeathcoat John 1783-1861. Inventors--1850-1900. Knitting--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,612 × 4,466 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227692

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