Object Number 1968.0394.211

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

Title page from William Wirt, The Letters of the British Spy, 5th ed. (Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., William Fry, 1813).

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).

William Wirt (Author)
11/08/1772-02/18/1834
Wirt was a successful and prominent attorney who argued a total of 174 cases before the United States Supreme Court, acted as prosecutor in the conspiracy trial of Aaron Burr in Richmond in 1807, and served as United States Attorney General from 1817 to 1829. He was also an elected member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the presidential nominee for the Anti-Masonic Party in 1832..

Fielding Lucas Jr. (Publisher)
1781-1854

William Fry (Printer)

Place of Origin

Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1813-1813

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Edwin sc.
2. Inscription; Bottom center; BALTIMORE/ Published by Fielding Lucas jr./ FRY_ Printer.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Crayon manner engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

12 (H) , 9.5 (W) , 4.41 (Image H) , 2.3 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

30.6 (H) , 24.2 (W) , 4.41 (Image H) , 2.3 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH near left. OW at bottom. Print H: 4.9 in. (12.4 cm). Print W: 2.9 in. (7.3 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Lucas, Fielding Jr.

Publication Date

1813

Place of Publication

Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Title page from William Wirt, The Letters of the British Spy, 5th ed. (Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., William Fry, 1813). Letters of a British Spy was first published in 1803.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Miles, Ellen G. 1994 Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America.
• Memin's engraving of Wirt published on pp. 165-66, fig. 8:4, and as cat. no. 962, pp. 433-34.