Object Number 1959.2620 A

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Goodman & Piggott (Engraver)
1815-1822

Gilbert Stuart (Painter)
12/03/1755-07/09/1828
References: Barratt and Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New York & New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, c2004).

W. H. Morgan (Publisher)

Place of Origin

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

Date

1818

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; Painted by G. Stuart 1797.
2. Inscription; Center beneath image; Published by W.H. Morgan No. 114 Chesnut Street Philad.\a 1818.
3. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Engraved by C. Goodman and R. Piggot.

Subjects

Portrait; George Washington; Political figure; Military

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Etched, Engraved

Dimensions (inches)

24.1 (H) , 16.1 (W) , 19.9 (Image H) , 13.1 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

61.1 (H) , 41 (W) , 19.9 (Image H) , 13.1 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom. Plate marks undiscernable.

Publisher Summary

Morgan, W. H.

Publication Date

1818

Place of Publication

No. 114 Chesnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

State

II

Watermark

none

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. 207, p. 313.
[Book] Hart, Charles Henry. 1904 Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington.
• Print listed as no. 298.
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as no. 1156, p. 195.