Feb 12, 2012
Who Was J. Backman?
In 1856 P. S. Duval & Co., Philadelphia, published this view of Baltimore as of 1752 drawn by J. Backman. John Reps in his Views and Viewmakers (1984), 1291, p. 321, links him to John Bachmann who Nat Case writes about in Imprint, volume 33, no. 11, p. 19ff (2008). Does anyone know who this 'J. Backman' is? Is this just a misspelling of his name or is it someone other than the more famous lithographer/viewmaker John Bachmann?