Gideon Fairman was a colonel in the Light Infantry Corps of the Washington Greys, but he was also an academic from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He joined the printers Murray & Draper in Philadelphia in 1810, as a vignette engraver.
Fairman had met Jacob Perkins before then and would later join the Perkins, Bacon printers. For them, Fairman would engrave the 1858 definitive design for Mauritius.
You will find Gideon Fairman's database HERE.
You will find Gideon Fairman's database HERE.