Object Number 1958.0133 A

Object Name

Print (Line engraving)

Title

PATER PATRIAE

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Enoch Gridley (Engraver)

John Coles Jr. (Painter)
1776/1780-1854

Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Date

1800-1825

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; Eng.\d by E.G. Gridley.
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; Painted by John Coles jun.

Subjects

George Washington; Mourning imagery; Allegory; Political figure

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Engraved, Etched, Line engraved, Stipple engraved

Dimensions (inches)

13.9 (H) , 10 (W) , 13 (Image H) , 8.9 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

35.4 (H) , 25.5 (W) , 13 (Image H) , 8.9 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Trimmed within platemark.

Place of Publication

Boston, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Swan, Susan Burrows. 1977 Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850.
• Published: p. 187, fig. 105
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 325, p. 461.
[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 4, p. 15.
[Book] Swan, Susan Burrows. 1995 Plain and Fancy: American Women and their Needlework, 1650-1850.
• Published: p. 201, fig. 117
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as no. 1184, pp. 200-201.
[Book] Hart, Charles Henry. 1904 Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington.
• Print listed as no. 221.
[Article] Casey, Emily C. 2021 A More Perfect Atlantic World: Abolition, Liberty, and Empire in Art after the American Revolution. Winterthur Portfolio. 55 (4): 207-256.
• Published: pp. 223, fig. 8