Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) still image Drawings American Color 1820-1840. gmgpc [ca. 1828] eng Drawing shows Matthew Newkirk's Mills, Blackwood Town [i.e., Delaware]. Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures--Memory": The Young Republic. Between 1810 and 1840, painter and printmaker John Rubens Smith traveled the eastern seaboard of the United States, creating a life portrait of the young republic. Smith sketched cities and towns, rivers, roads, bridges, and mills. His drawings captured the spirit and energy of the new nation during a period of enormous growth and optimism and the literal transformation of the American landscape during the first decades of the Industrial Revolution. The finished watercolor of a paper mill complex on the Brandywine River suggests the fragile harmony between nature and technology achieved in America during the first decades of the Industrial Revolution. Title from item. Caption on drawing erroneously identifies the mill as being in New Jersey. Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995, Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana / Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 80. Newkirk, Matthew--Homes & haunts--Delaware. Mills--Delaware--1820-1840. United States Brandywine John Rubens Smith Collection http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.23136 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03670 No known restrictions on publication.