Print (Engraving)

Museum Object Number 1968.0394.014

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

W.BAINBRIDGE ESQ\R. U.S.N.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

David Edwin (Engraver)

Gilbert Stuart (Painter)

Francis Kearney (Draftsman and engraver)

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.References: Barratt and Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New York & New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, c2004).Francis Kearney (1785–1837), a.k.a. Francis Kearny, was an American engraver and lithographer, active in Philadelphia and New York. He was born and died in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Kearney

Date of Birth

12//177612/03/17551785

Date of Death

02/22/184107/09/18281837

Place of Origin

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

Date

1813-1820

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath top image; Stuart Pinx.\t
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath top image; Edwin Sculp.\t
3. Inscription; Center beneath bottom image; Kearney del.\t et sculp.\t
4. Inscription; Bottom center; Published by M. Thomas PHIL.\A

Subjects

Book illustration; Portrait; Military; Seascape

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved, Copperplate Engraved

Dimensions (inches)

8.6 (H) , 5.28 (W) , 7.48 (Image H) , 3.87 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

21.8 (H) , 13.42 (W) , 7.48 (Image H) , 3.87 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 8.0 in. (20.3 cm). Print W: 4.7 in. (11.9 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Thomas, Moses

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Probably published in The Analectic Magazine (Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1813-20). Need to find vol. and issue no.

Object Description

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