Object Number 2002.0020.014

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

Untitled (Brinton Coxe)

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Weld Coxe

Creator (Role)

John Sartain (Mezzotinter)
1808-1897
Also founded and published Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art (Jan. 1849-Aug. 1852). Thought to have produced as many as 1500 plates.

Luigi Saulini (Draftsman)
1819-1893
Italian family of gem-engravers. Tommaso Saulini (b Rome, 1793; d Rome, 24 June 1864) and his son Luigi Saulini (b Rome, 1819; d Rome, 1893) had a cameo-carving workshop in Rome that they maintained successively from c. 1830 to 1883. Their activities were divided between the production of carved portraits and ambitious compositions based on Classical sculptures, ancient gems or contemporary Neo-classical subjects taken from the work of such leading contemporary artists as Bertel Thorvaldsen (with whom Tommaso had trained) and John Gibson. (Source: www.artnet.com).

Place of Origin

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

Secondary Place of Origin

Rome, Italy, Europe

Date

1883-1885

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Mezzotint, Chine collé

Dimensions (inches)

19.2 (H) , 15.2 (W) , 6.5 (Image H) , 6 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

48.7 (H) , 38.5 (W) , 6.5 (Image H) , 6 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 11.6 in. (29.4 cm). Plate W: 8.6 in. (21.9 cm).

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

State

II

Edition Notes

Preliminary proof, before inscription.

Object Description

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