Object Number 1965.0090

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

SACRED/ TO/ PATRIOTISM.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Cornelius Tiebout (Engraver)
c. 1773-1832

Charles Buxton M.D. (Designer and draftsman)
1768-1833

Charles Smith (Publisher)

Place of Origin

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1798

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left within image; Designed & Drawn by Charles Buxton M.D.
2. Inscription; Lower right within image; C. Tiebout sc.
3. Inscription; Center beneath image; This Plate is with due RESPECT Inscribed to the CONGRESS of the United States BY/ Chas. Smith./ New York, Published by C. Smith, 1798.
4. Inscription; Bottom center; New York, Published by C. Smith 1798

Subjects

George Washington; Eagle; Great Seal of US; Military; American Revolutionary War; President; Historical; Political figure

Materials

Ink; Paper

Techniques

Engraved, Etched, Stipple Etched

Construction Description

Could not tell whether paper is wove or laid.

Dimensions (inches)

27.5 (H) , 22.8 (W) , 21.3 (Image H) , 24.1 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

69.85 (H) , 57.9 (W) , 21.3 (Image H) , 24.1 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H and W of secondary support. H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Smith, Charles

Publication Date

1798

Place of Publication

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

State

II or later

Edition Notes

Smith first published this image in 1783.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 204, pp. 310-311.
[Book] Hart, Charles Henry. 1904 Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington.
• Print listed as no. 676.
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as no. 3196, p. 526.