University of Pennsylvania Artists_Nicolas Robert Wilkes was given six ships

Wilkes was given six ships to command-one of

The Most Influential Map of the Mississippi River on the eve of the American Revolutionary War

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University of Pennsylvania Artists_Nicolas Robert Wilkes was given six shipsRichard Rummell University of Pennsylvania Re strike engraving from the original plate (c. 1913). Printed on heavy woven paper and hand colored. Plate size: 17 1 4 x 29 At the turn of the century, Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848 1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges. From these watercolors, copper plates were engraved and a limited number of pulls (engravings) were