The County Election
John Sartain
1854
Medium
Hand-colored engraving and etching, with selective glazing, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Sight: 65.5 × 81 cm (25 13/16 × 31 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
266147
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
John Sartain · 1808–1897
**John Sartain (1808–1897)** was an English-born American artist renowned for pioneering mezzotint engraving in the United States. Born in London on October 24, 1808, he trained in line engraving and contributed plates to William Young Ottley’s *Early Florentine School* (1826). He began experimenting with mezzotints in 1828 and studied painting under John Varley and Henry James Richter. In 1830, a...