DAVID PORTER ESQ\E./ of the United States Navy.
Prints and Maps
David Edwin (Engraver)
Joseph Wood (Painter)
Charles Bance (Publisher)
Paris, France, Europe
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Engraved
1969.0044
Object Number1969.0044 |
Print (Stipple engraving)
DAVID PORTER ESQ\E./ 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.
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)
Paris, France, Europe
1. Inscription; Bottom center; à Paris, chez Ch. Bance, Editeur, Rue J. J. Rousseau, N.\o 10.
Book illustration; Military; Portrait
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Engraved
7.6 (H) , 5.8 (W) , 3.21 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)
19.2 (H) , 14.7 (W) , 3.21 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)
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).
Bance, Charles
No. 10 Rue J. J. Rousseau, Paris, Ville de paris department, Ile-de-France, France, Europe
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From an unidentified publication. Prints 69.38-.44 all appear to be from the same series.
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