Theodore Jasper (13 July 1814, in

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– 6 June 1897, in

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) was a portrait painter and photographic

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active in Columbus, Ohio from circa 1866 to 1883. From the 1840s to the 1860s he worked in New York and

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(Haverstock, 2000). His paintings formed the basis for '' Studer's Popular Ornithology'', a late 19th-century work that had several editions with chromolithographic copies of Jasper's art.

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, Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture * Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt, Jeffrey Weidman (2000). Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900: a biographical dictionary. Kent State University Press. , (vi
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