Museum Object Number1968.0394.024 |
Print (Engraving)
D\R.BLACKMORE.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
David Edwin (Engraver)
Robert Johnson (Publisher)
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.
12//1776
02/22/1841
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1. Inscription; Center beneath image; D.edwin sc.
2. Inscription; Bottom center below legend; Published by R. Johnson.
Portrait
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Line engraved
6.79 (H) , 4.4 (W) , 3.88 (Image H) , 2.47 (Image W)
17.25 (H) , 11.1 (W) , 3.88 (Image H) , 2.47 (Image W)
OH at left. OW at top. Print H: 6.19 in. (15.73 cm). Print W: 3.81 in. (9.68 cm). No plate marks.
Johnson, Robert
1806
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
none
Frontispiece from Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation: a philosophical poem, in seven books (Philadelphia: Robert Johnson, 1806).
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