James Lawrence Esq.\r./ Late of the United States Navy.
Prints and Maps
David Edwin (Engraver)
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (Artist)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1813-1831
Ink; Paper (wove); Paper (laid)
Stipple engraved, Line engraved
1968.0394.110
Object Number1968.0394.110 |
Print (Engraving)
James Lawrence Esq.\r./ Late of the United States Navy.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
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).
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1813-1831
1. Inscription; Center beneath image; Edwin sc.
Portrait; Military
Ink; Paper (wove); Paper (laid)
Stipple engraved, Line engraved
12 (H) , 9.5 (W) , 4.24 (Image H) , 2.42 (Image W)
30.5 (H) , 24.2 (W) , 4.24 (Image H) , 2.42 (Image W)
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.
none
Text available soon.
[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.