Object Number 1968.0394.110

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

James Lawrence Esq.\r./ Late of the United States Navy.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

David Edwin (Engraver)
12//1776-02/22/1841
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.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (Artist)
03/12/1770-06/23/1852
References: Ellen G. Miles, Sain-Memin/ and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Insitution Press, 1994).

Place of Origin

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

Date

1813-1831

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Center beneath image; Edwin sc.

Subjects

Portrait; Military

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove); Paper (laid)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

12 (H) , 9.5 (W) , 4.24 (Image H) , 2.42 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

30.5 (H) , 24.2 (W) , 4.24 (Image H) , 2.42 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at left. OW at bottom. Print H: 7.1 in. (18.1 cm). Print W: 4.4 in. (11.3 cm). No plate marks.

Watermark

none

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Miles, Ellen G. 1994 Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America.
• Original engraving ill. as fig. 10:2, p. 191, and cat. no. 486, p. 335.