Print (Engraving)

Museum Object Number 1968.0396.008 A, B

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

Frontispiece and page from Oliver Oldschool, The Port Folio, vol. IV, no. 2, August 1810 (Philadelphia: The Author and Asbury Dickens, 1801-27).

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

August 1810 (1810-1810)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Top on obverse of .8b; BY OLIVER OLDSCHOOL, ESQ.

Subjects

Portrait; Clergy

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

9.5 (H) , 5.77 (W) , 5.66 (Image H) , 3.6 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

24.12 (H) , 14.65 (W) , 5.66 (Image H) , 3.6 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements taken of 68.396.8a. OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 9.01 in. (22.88 cm). Print W: 5.3 in. (13.4 cm). Plate H: 8.35 in. (21.22 cm). Plate W: 5.2 in. (13.1 cm).

Publication Date

08//1810

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Frontispiece and page from Oliver Oldschool, The Port Folio, vol. IV, no. 2, August 1810 (Philadelphia: The Author and Asbury Dickens, 1801-27).

Object Description

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