Object Number 1968.0394.012

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

Fisher Ames.

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.

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).

Place of Origin

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

Date

1807-1831

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; G. Stuart Pinx:
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; D. Edwin Sculp:

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

11.9 (H) , 9.46 (W) , 5.81 (Image H) , 3.8 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

30.1 (H) , 24.02 (W) , 5.81 (Image H) , 3.8 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at left. OW at top. Print H: 7.67 in. (19.47 cm). Print W: 5.0 in. (12.7 cm). No plate marks.

Watermark

none

Object Description

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