Object Number 1957.1256

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

THE ALTERNATIVE OF WILLIAMS-BURG.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Robert Sayer & John Bennett (Publisher)
1774-1785

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

February 16 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 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 16 Feb. 1775.

Subjects

Social/political commentary; John Wilkes

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Mezzotint, Engraving

Dimensions (inches)

17.3 (H) , 12.3 (W) , 14 (Image H) , 10 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

44 (H) , 31.3 (W) , 14 (Image H) , 10 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 14.3 in. (36.3 cm). Plate W: 10.5 in. (26.7 cm). Chain interval: 2.6-2.7 cm; laid line frequency: 10 per cm. Frame H: 16.9 in. (42.9 cm). Frame W: 12.9 in. (32.7 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

02/16/1775

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

"PTOMAS/ FIN/ DANGOUMOIS"

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[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. 91, p. 39.
[Thesis] Hurst, Neal. 2015 For the Heat is Beyond Your Conception: Men's Summer Dress in the American South During the Long Eighteenth-Century. M.A. Winterthur Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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