Object Number 1968.0394.047

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

M\r.. Cooke (George Frederick Cooke)

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.

Thomas Sully (Painter)
06/19/1783-11/15/1872

Stephen Cullen Carpenter (Author)-c. 1820

Bradford and Inskeep (Publisher)

William M'Ilkenny (Publisher)

Place of Origin

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

Secondary Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; Sully pinx.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Edwin sc.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

8.8 (H) , 5.6 (W) , 4.81 (Image H) , 3.15 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

22.35 (H) , 14.1 (W) , 4.81 (Image H) , 3.15 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at left. OW at top. Print H: 8.1 in. (20.6 cm). Print W: 4.83 in. (12.28 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Bradford and Inskeep

Publication Date

1811

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Illustration from S.C. Carpenter, The Mirror of taste, and Dramatic censor (Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Boston: William M'Ilkenny, 1810-11).

Object Description

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