Title page from William Wirt, The Letters of the British Spy, 5th ed. (Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., William Fry, 1813).
Prints and Maps
David Edwin (Engraver)
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (Artist)
William Wirt (Author)
Fielding Lucas Jr. (Publisher)
William Fry (Printer)
Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1813-1813
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Crayon manner engraved, Line engraved
1968.0394.211
Object Number1968.0394.211 |
Print (Engraving)
Title page from William Wirt, The Letters of the British Spy, 5th ed. (Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., William Fry, 1813).
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).
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)
Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1813-1813
1. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Edwin sc.
2. Inscription; Bottom center; BALTIMORE/ Published by Fielding Lucas jr./ FRY_ Printer.
Portrait
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Crayon manner engraved, Line engraved
12 (H) , 9.5 (W) , 4.41 (Image H) , 2.3 (Image W)
30.6 (H) , 24.2 (W) , 4.41 (Image H) , 2.3 (Image W)
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.
Lucas, Fielding Jr.
1813
Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
none
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.
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[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.