Museum Object Number1968.0394.055 |
Print (Engraving)
COOPER as LEON.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
David Edwin (Engraver)
Charles Robert Leslie (Artist)
Stephen Cullen Carpenter (Author)
Bradford and Inskeep (Publisher)
William M'Ilkenny (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//17761794
02/22/18411859c. 1820
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1810-1811
1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; C.R. Leslie del.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Edwin sc.
3. Inscription; Bottom center below legend; Engravd for Mirror of Taste.
Portrait; Literary scene; Shakespeare, William
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Line engraved
8.92 (H) , 5.6 (W) , 7.4 (Image H) , 3 (Image W)
22.65 (H) , 14.3 (W) , 7.4 (Image H) , 3 (Image W)
OH at left. OW at top. Print H: 8.35 in. (21.22 cm). Print W: 4.93 in. (12.51 cm). No plate marks.
Bradford and Inskeep
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
none
Illustration from S.C. Carpenter, The Mirror of taste, and Dramatic censor (Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Boston: William M'Ilkenny, 1810-11).
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