Object Number 1968.0394.022

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

JAMES BEATTIE, LL.D.

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.

Hopkins and Earle (Publisher)
1808-1811

Place of Origin

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1808-1811

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Center beneath image; D.Edwin,sc.
2. Inscription; Bottom center below legend; Philad.\a Published by Hopkins & Earle.

Subjects

Portrait; Clergy

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Crayon manner engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

6.21 (H) , 3.98 (W) , 4.4 (Image H) , 2.8 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

15.77 (H) , 10.11 (W) , 4.4 (Image H) , 2.8 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at left. OW at top. Print H: 5.57 in. (14.16 cm). Print W: 3.4 in. (8.7 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Hopkins and Earle

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Benjamin B. Hopkins and Edwin Earle are known to have been publishing together, 1808-11.

Object Description

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