Print (Line engraving)

Museum Object Number 1961.1742

Object Name

Print (Line engraving)

Title

A DISPLAY of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Amos Doolittle (Engraver, printer and publisher)

Creator Notes

References: Groce and Wallace, Artists in America (1957). Doolittle is perhaps less remembered for his cartographic works - he produced many of the early best maps of New England, most notably for Mathew Carey in Philadelphia.

Date of Birth

05/18/1754

Date of Death

01/30/1832

Place of Origin

New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America

Date

October 1 1791 (1791-1791)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower center, beneath title; Printed & Sold by A. Doolittle New Haven where Engraving & Rolling Press Printing is performed.

Subjects

Portrait; Armorial device

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Engraved, Etched, Line engraved, Stipple engraved, Hand colored, Painted

Construction Description

Two sheets of laid paper joined together before printing.

Dimensions (inches)

23.6 (H) , 19.5 (W) , 20.4 (Image H) , 16.5 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

60 (H) , 49.5 (W) , 20.4 (Image H) , 16.5 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 20.9 in. (53.1 cm). Plate W: 17.0 in. (43.3 cm). Chain interval: 2.7-2.9 cm. Laid line interval: 8 per cm.

Publisher Summary

Doolittle, Amos

Publication Date

10/01/1791

Place of Publication

New Haven, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America

State

II or III

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Edition Notes

State I published in 1789. Listed as Hart 840b.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Print Published: no. 35, pp.106-107.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 212, p. 317.
[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 112, pp. 43-44.
[Book] Hart, Charles Henry. 1904 Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington.
• Compare with states recorded on pp. 355-356. (840b?)
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as cat. no. 521, p. 90.