Museum Object Number1965.0087 |
Print (Mezzotint)
George Washington Esq,,\r/ PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA./ From the Original Portrait Painted at the request of the Corporation of the University of Cambridge in Massachusetts.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
Pieter Stevens van Gunst (Designer, engraver and publisher)
Gunst was born in Amsterdam and died in England. Dates are given for LARREY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND, for which Gunst prepared a series of portraits.
1659
c.1724
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Origin may also be United States.
June 25 1793 (1793-1793)
1. Inscription; Lower center, beneath image; "E. Savage pinx. et sculp."
2. Inscription; Lower center, beneath title; "Published June 25, 1793, by E. Savage, No. 54, Newman Street."
Washington, George; Portrait
Ink; Paper (wove)
Mezzotint
24.3 (H) , 18.3 (W) , 18 (Image H) , 13.9 (Image W)
61.6 (H) , 46.4 (W) , 18 (Image H) , 13.9 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom. Plate H: 53.3 cm and W: 40.3 cm.
Savage, Edward
06/25/1793
54 Newman Street, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
none
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 201, pp. 306-307.
[Book] Hart, Charles Henry. 1904 Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington.
• Print listed as no. 228. See also p. 107.
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as no. 2752, p. 456.
[Book] Groce, George C & Wallace, David H. 1957 The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860.
• See pps. 559-60 for information on the artist.