Print (Engraving)

Museum Object Number 1968.0394.169

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

MAJOR GEN\L. WINFIELD SCOTT./ of the United States Army.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

David Edwin (Engraver)

Joseph Wood (Painter)

Moses Thomas (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.A self-portrait miniature by Wood, c. 1810, is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993.283). References: J.Hall Pleasants, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1945).

Date of Birth

12//17761778

Date of Death

02/22/18411830/1832

Place of Origin

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

October 25 1814 (1814-1814)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; Wood Pinx\t.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Edwin sc.
3. Inscription; Bottom center below legend; Engrav'd for the Analectic Magazine Publish'd by M.Thomas./ Entered according to Act of Congress 25 Oc\t. 1814.

Subjects

Book illustration; Portrait; Military

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

12.1 (H) , 9.67 (W) , 6.7 (Image H) , 3.11 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

30.8 (H) , 24.55 (W) , 6.7 (Image H) , 3.11 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 8.3 in. (21.2 cm). Print W: 4.86 in. (12.35 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Thomas, Moses

Publication Date

10/25/1814

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Published in The Analectic Magazine (Philadelphia: M. Thomas, 1813-20). Need to find volume and issue no.

Object Description

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