Fraser, Charles "Haddril's Point, near Charleston, S.C."

Charles Fraser.  "Haddril's Point, near Charleston, S.C."  From The Analectic Magazine. Philadelphia: 1817. 2 7/8 x 4 1/2. Aquatint by John Hill. Very good condition.  

Haddrell’s Point was named for an early settler George Haddrell.  Early in the Revolutionary War a battery was placed here in which to defend Charleston from British attacks. President George Washington visited Haddrell’s Point on his way to Charleston in 1791.

In 1812, Philadelphia bookseller and publisher Moses Thomas purchased a monthly magazine entitled Select Reviews, engaged Washington Irving as editor, and renamed the publication The Analectic Magazine.  Irving, his brother-in-law J. K. Paulding, Gulian C. Verplanck and, later, Thomas Isaac Wharton wrote much of the material, which concentrated on literary reviews, articles on travel and science, biographies of naval heroes, and reprints of selections from British periodicals.  Illustration “was one of the magazine’s chief distinctions.  Not only were there the usual engravings on copper, but some of the earliest magazine experiments in lithography and wood engraving appeared here.