Museum Object Number1983.0181 A |
Print (Stipple engraving)
The WASHINGTON FAMILY./ La FAMILLE de WASHINGTON. // George Washington his Lady, and her Grandchildren by the name of Custis./ George Washington Son Espouse et Les deux petits Enfants du Nom de Custis.
Prints and Maps
Gift of Elizabeth Hadley Porter
Edward Savage (Designer and engraver)
Edward Savage and Robert Wilkinson (Publisher)
David Edwin (Engraver)
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.
11/26/176112//1776
07/06/181702/22/1841
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
March 10 1798 (1798-1798)
1. Inscription; Lower center, beneath image; Painted & Engrav'd by E. Savage.
2. Inscription; Lower center, beneath title; Philadelphia, Publish'd March 10\th 1789 by E. Savage & Rob.\t Wilkinson N.\o 58 Cornhill London.
Portrait; Washington, George
Ink; Paper (wove); Wood
Stipple engraved, Stipple Etched, Engraved, Etched
21.9 (H) , 28.3 (W) , 18.5 (Image H) , 24.7 (Image W)
55.6 (H) , 71.8 (W) , 18.5 (Image H) , 24.7 (Image W)
Plate H: 21.1 in. (53.5 cm). Plate W: 26.2 in. (66.6 cm). H at left. W at bottom.
Edward Savage and Robert Wilkinson
03/10/1798
unknown
Unable to inspect paper due to condition.
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no.38, pp.112-113.
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Information about painting on which this print is based: no.46, pp.76-77.