Print (Engraving)

Museum Object Number 1968.0394.025

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

JUDGE BLACKSTONE.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

David Edwin (Engraver)

Thomas B. Wait and Co. (Publisher)

Creator Notes

References: Appleton's Cylcopedia of American Biography; Groce and Wallace, Artists in America, 1564-1860 (1957). Edwin executed hundreds of stipple-engraved portraits of famous persons. See 68.394.1-.217.

Date of Birth

12//17761805/1807

Date of Death

02/22/184112//1813

Place of Origin

Portland, Maine, New England, United States, North America

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Center beneath image; Edwin. sc.
2. Inscription; Bottom center; Pub: by T.B.Wait & C\o. Portland.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

7.2 (H) , 4.5 (W) , 5.36 (Image H) , 2.6 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

18.4 (H) , 11.4 (W) , 5.36 (Image H) , 2.6 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at left. OW at bottom. Print H: 6.7 in. (17.1 cm). Print W: 3.8 in. (9.6 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Thomas B. Wait and Co.

Publication Date

1807

Place of Publication

Portland, Maine, New England, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Frontispiece from Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England, 4 vol. (Portland: Thomas B. Wait & Co., 1807).

Object Description

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