Print (Engraving)

Museum Object Number 1968.0394.028

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

Joseph S: Buckminster.

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

1810-1831

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; G. Steuart (sic) pinx:
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; D. Edwin sculpt:

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

8.93 (H) , 5.5 (W) , 6.16 (Image H) , 4.1 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

22.68 (H) , 14 (W) , 6.16 (Image H) , 4.1 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 8.2 in. (20.9 cm). Print W: 4.9 in. (12.4 cm). No plate marks.

Watermark

none

Object Description

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