Ralph Stevenson of Staffordshire, England produced this whiteware plate around 1830. Captain Basil Hall used a camera lucida to draw this scene of the Erie Canal at Buffalo, which was later included in the book “Forty Etchings from Sketches Made with the Camera Lucida in North America in 1827-1828.” William Home Lizars engraved the etching-plate used to transfer-print the scene to the plate. A lace and floral border rings the plate
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