Museum Object Number2002.0020.003 A |
Tool (for fine art) (Steel plate)
Untitled (Brinton Coxe)
Tools
Gift of Weld Coxe
John Sartain (Mezzotinter)
Luigi Saulini (Draftsman)
John Sellers & Sons (Plate maker)
Also founded and published Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art (Jan. 1849-Aug. 1852). Thought to have produced as many as 1500 plates.Italian family of gem-engravers. Tommaso Saulini (b Rome, 1793; d Rome, 24 June 1864) and his son Luigi Saulini (b Rome, 1819; d Rome, 1893) had a cameo-carving workshop in Rome that they maintained successively from c. 1830 to 1883. Their activities were divided between the production of carved portraits and ambitious compositions based on Classical sculptures, ancient gems or contemporary Neo-classical subjects taken from the work of such leading contemporary artists as Bertel Thorvaldsen (with whom Tommaso had trained) and John Gibson. (Source: www.artnet.com).This firm appears to have specialized in straight-edge razors, but also made other steel objects, including knives and steel plates for engravings.
180818191820
189718931953
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe
1884-1884
1. Inscription; Lower left; ON STEEL BY JOHN SARTAIN, PHILA
2. Inscription; Lower right; DRAWN BY L. SAULINI, ROME
3. Inscription; Bottom center on reverse; JOHNSELLERS&SONS / 151 ARUNDEL STREET / SHEFFIELD
Portrait
Iron
Mezzotint
12 (H) , 9.1 (W) , 10.2 (Image H) , 7.6 (Image W)
30.5 (H) , 23.1 (W) , 10.2 (Image H) , 7.6 (Image W)
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