Print (Stipple engraving)

  • Title:

    DAVID PORTER ESQ\E./ of the United States Navy.

  • Category:

    Prints and Maps

  • Creator (Role):

    David Edwin (Engraver)

    Joseph Wood (Painter)

    Charles Bance (Publisher)

  • Place of Origin:

    Paris, France, Europe

  • Materials:

    Ink; Paper (wove)

  • Techniques:

    Stipple engraved, Engraved

  • Museum Object Number:

    1969.0044


  • Complete Details



Object Number

1969.0044

Object Name

Print (Stipple engraving)

Title

DAVID PORTER ESQ\E./ 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.

Joseph Wood (Painter)
1778-1830/1832
A self-portrait miniature by Wood, c. 1810, is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993.283). References: J.Hall Pleasants, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1945).

Charles Bance (Publisher)

Place of Origin

Paris, France, Europe

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Bottom center; à Paris, chez Ch. Bance, Editeur, Rue J. J. Rousseau, N.\o 10.

Subjects

Book illustration; Military; Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Engraved

Dimensions (inches)

7.6 (H) , 5.8 (W) , 3.21 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

19.2 (H) , 14.7 (W) , 3.21 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at left and OW at bottom of backing. Print H (at left): 5.48 in. (13.91 cm). Print W (at bottom): 4.06 in. (10.32 cm). Plate H (at left): 5.0 in. (12.7 cm). Plate W: 3.9 in. (9.8 cm).

Publisher Summary

Bance, Charles

Place of Publication

No. 10 Rue J. J. Rousseau, Paris, Ville de paris department, Ile-de-France, France, Europe

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

From an unidentified publication. Prints 69.38-.44 all appear to be from the same series.

Object Description

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