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Elkanah Tisdale
American, 1768–1835
Elkanah Tisdale was an American American Folk Art painter. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Detroit Institute of Arts, most of them watercolors. Elkanah Tisdale was born in Lebanon.
Elkanah Tisdale (1768 – May 1, 1835) was an American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist. He was known for the famous cartoon "The Gerry-Mander", published in the Boston Gazette on March 26, 1812, which led to the coining of the term gerrymandering.
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