Object Number 1961.1742

Object Name

Print (Line engraving)

Title

A DISPLAY of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Amos Doolittle (Engraver, printer and publisher)
05/18/1754-01/30/1832
References: Groce and Wallace, Artists in America (1957). Doolittle is perhaps less remembered for his cartographic works - he produced many of the early best maps of New England, most notably for Mathew Carey in Philadelphia.

Place of Origin

New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America

Date

October 1 1791 (1791-1791)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower center, beneath title; Printed & Sold by A. Doolittle New Haven where Engraving & Rolling Press Printing is performed.

Subjects

Portrait; Armorial device

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Engraved, Etched, Line engraved, Stipple engraved, Hand colored, Painted

Construction Description

Two sheets of laid paper joined together before printing.

Dimensions (inches)

23.6 (H) , 19.5 (W) , 20.4 (Image H) , 16.5 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

60 (H) , 49.5 (W) , 20.4 (Image H) , 16.5 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 20.9 in. (53.1 cm). Plate W: 17.0 in. (43.3 cm). Chain interval: 2.7-2.9 cm. Laid line interval: 8 per cm.

Publisher Summary

Doolittle, Amos

Publication Date

10/01/1791

Place of Publication

New Haven, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America

State

II or III

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Edition Notes

State I published in 1789. Listed as Hart 840b.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Print Published: no. 35, pp.106-107.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 212, p. 317.
[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. 112, pp. 43-44.
[Book] Hart, Charles Henry. 1904 Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington.
• Compare with states recorded on pp. 355-356. (840b?)
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as cat. no. 521, p. 90.