Print (Engraving)

Museum Object Number 1968.0394.010

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

Fisher Ames.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

David Edwin (Engraver)

Gilbert Stuart (Painter)

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.References: Barratt and Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New York & New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, c2004).

Date of Birth

12//177612/03/1755

Date of Death

02/22/184107/09/1828

Place of Origin

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

Date

1807-1831

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Center beneath image; Edwin sc.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

12.07 (H) , 9.6 (W) , 5.3 (Image H) , 3.5 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

30.67 (H) , 24.5 (W) , 5.3 (Image H) , 3.5 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH near left. OW at top. Print H: 8.5 in. (21.5 cm). Print W: 4.5 in. (11.4 cm). No plate marks.

Watermark

none

Object Description

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