Print (Engraving)

Museum Object Number 1968.0394.103

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

General Knox. (Henry Knox)

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

David Edwin (Engraver)

Gilbert Stuart (Painter)

Oliver Oldschool Esq. (Author)

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

1812-1812

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Center beneath image; D. Edwin sc.

Subjects

Portrait; Military

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

12.07 (H) , 9.63 (W) , 4.5 (Image H) , 2.4 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

30.65 (H) , 24.45 (W) , 4.5 (Image H) , 2.4 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 8.41 in. (21.35 cm). Print W: 5.0 in. (12.6 cm). Plate H: 7.39 in. (18.77 cm). Plate W: 4.9 in. (12.4 cm).

Publication Date

1812

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Illustration from Oliver Oldschool, Esq., The Port Folio, vol. 7 (Philadelphia: The Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1812). Need to find issue no.

Object Description

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