Object Number 1957.1255

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

A SOCIETY of PATRIOTIC LADIES./ AT/ EDENTON in NORTH CAROLINA.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Robert Sayer & John Bennett (Publisher)
1774-1785

Philip Dawe (Mezzotinter)
c.1750-c.1785

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

March 25 1775 (1775-1775)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower center, beneath title; London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, N.\o 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 25 March 1775.

Subjects

Social/political commentary

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Mezzotint, Engraving

Dimensions (inches)

14.6 (H) , 10.7 (W) , 12.9 (Image H) , 10 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

37 (H) , 27.1 (W) , 12.9 (Image H) , 10 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 13.9 in. (35.4 cm). Plate W: 10.0 in. (25.3 cm). Chain interval: 2.6-2.7 cm; laid line frequency: 9 per cm. Frame H: 17.0 in. (43.2 cm). Frame W: 13.1 in. (33.2 cm). Frame D: 0.8 in. (2.1 cm). H at left. W at bottom. D at bottom left.

Publisher Summary

Robert Sayer & John Bennett

Publication Date

03/25/1775

Place of Publication

53 Fleet Street, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Watermark

Lily with a bend

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 48, pp.132-133.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 97, pp. 156-157.
[Article] Sweeney, Erin Michaela. 1998 "The Patriotic Ladies of Edenton, North Carolina: The Layers of Gray in a Black-and-White Print,". Imprint. 23 (2): 20-24.
• Published: p. 120.
[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 92, p. 39.
[Book] The British Museum & George, Mary Dorothy. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. 5.
• Print listed as no. 5284, p. 197.
[Article] Ackermann, Daniel Kurt. 07//2012 Our Spirited Ancestors: The Decorative Art of Drinking in the Early South. Antiques and Fine Art. XII (1): 156-163.
• Discussion of same print subject: pp. 161 & 163, fig. 14 (MESDA collection)