Object Number 1968.0394.030

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

Joseph S: Buckminster.

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).

E. Jacques (Printer)

Place of Origin

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

Date

1810-1831

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; G. Steuart (sic) pinx:
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; D. Edwin sculpt:

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

9.1 (H) , 5.78 (W) , 6.37 (Image H) , 4 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

23.2 (H) , 14.68 (W) , 6.37 (Image H) , 4 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 8.6 in. (21.9 cm). Print W: 5.1 in. (12.9 cm). No plate marks.

Watermark

none

Object Description

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