The steel engraving was produced in 1845 by Smillie and Hinshelwood for Graham's Magazine. "Robert Hutchinson Rose (1776–1842) land developer, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania and spent the winters of his youth in Philadelphia. He received a medical education, though he apparently did not practice in that field. Rose served as agent of the Susquehannah Company, visited Italy often and was an acquittance of Thomas Jefferson. Rose wrote several poems that appeared in the Port Folio between 1802 and 1805, and he later published a volume of poetry, Sketches in Verse (Philadelphia, 1810). 

Perhaps composing his verse on the shores of Silver Lake, in 1809 Rose bought a large tract of about one hundred thousand acres in Pennsylvania in a section of Luzerne County that became Susquehanna County the next year. Rose’s property included the township of Silver Lake. He encouraged the settlement and development of the area thereafter and served as the town’s postmaster from 1810 until his death at his home in Silver Lake. In 1817 Rose was elected president of the newly established Silver Lake Bank, and in 1820 he became the president of the Agricultural Society of Susquehanna." We have included a photograph in the listing, from Graham's Magazine on pg. 89, the article that is associated with the steel engraving, entitled "Cottage Residences." Unfortunately, the exquisite mansion in this engraving was destroyed by fire in 1819. 

James S. Smillie, (1807–1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, and did much with his brother William Cumming (1813–1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver. Smillie had a major influence on nineteenth century American engraving and etching and is probably best known for his banknote engravings with Rawden, Wright and Hatch, and for his engravings after Thomas Cole's painting series, "Voyage of Life." Smillie formed a partnership with engraver Robert Hinshelwood prior to 1845 (1812-1879). Hinshelwood first learned his craft with James and John Johnstone, engravers of Edinburgh, Scotland. Hinshelwood came to the United States about 1832 and was also a landscape engraver for Harper’s and other New York publishers like Graham's, and was also employed by the Continental Bank Note Company.