General Knox. (Henry Knox)
Prints and Maps
David Edwin (Engraver)
Gilbert Stuart (Painter)
Oliver Oldschool Esq. (Author)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1812-1812
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Line engraved
1968.0394.103
Object Number1968.0394.103 |
Print (Engraving)
General Knox. (Henry Knox)
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
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).
Oliver Oldschool Esq. (Author)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1812-1812
1. Inscription; Center beneath image; D. Edwin sc.
Portrait; Military
Ink; Paper (wove)
Stipple engraved, Line engraved
12.07 (H) , 9.63 (W) , 4.5 (Image H) , 2.4 (Image W)
30.65 (H) , 24.45 (W) , 4.5 (Image H) , 2.4 (Image W)
OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 8.41 in. (21.35 cm). Print W: 5.0 in. (12.6 cm). Plate H: 7.39 in. (18.77 cm). Plate W: 4.9 in. (12.4 cm).
1812
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
none
Illustration from Oliver Oldschool, Esq., The Port Folio, vol. 7 (Philadelphia: The Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1812). Need to find issue no.
Text available soon.