Object Number 1977.0109

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

FAMILY ELECTIONEERING_ or Candidate Bob in his GLORY.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

William Charles (Etcher)
1776-1820

Place of Origin

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

Date

1807

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; Pub,,\d at Charles' Repository of Arts/ New York 1807

Subjects

Social/political commentary

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Etched, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

9.06 (H) , 13 (W) , 8.6 (Image H) , 13 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

23 (H) , 33.1 (W) , 8.6 (Image H) , 13 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom. Trimmed within plate marks.

Place of Publication

Charles' Repository of Arts, New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Coloring

Hand colored with translucent watercolors

Edition Notes

This impression is the only extant copy and state of this etching.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Stagg, Allison M. 2023 Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States.
• Published: p. 105, fig. 69
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 330, pp. 468-469.
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as no. 332, p. 58.
[Article] Fowble, E. McSherry. "William Charles' 'Family Electioneering or Candidate Bob in his Glory,". Imprint. 3 (1)
• See pp. 16-18, 20.
[Article] Lanmon, Lorraine Welling. 1976 "American Caricature in the English Tradition: The Personal and Political Satires of William Charles,". Winterthur Portfolio. 11
• See pp. 1-51.