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Illustration from “Newport: Historical and Social,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 9, no. 51 (August 1854), 315. The engraving was originally printed in Newport Illustrated, written by George C. Mason in 1854, and published for him and for Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin, engravers. Mason wrote the text as well as made all 26 drawings for the book. Twenty two of them were purchased by Harper & Brothers and used in the August, 1854, issue of their magazine. Although Mason drew the series of views of Newport and its environs (including the Old Stone Mill) on stone, the initials in the engraving above appear to be D.C.H., perhaps the signature of DeWitt C. Hitchcock, an illustrator, engraver, and landscapist who worked in Boston, Cincinnati, and New York City from 1845-79.
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