Object Number 1957.0586 A

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

TH: JEFFERSON

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (Draftsman and engraver)
03/12/1770-06/23/1852
References: Ellen G. Miles, Sain-Memin/ and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Insitution Press, 1994).

Place of Origin

Washington, District of Columbia, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1804-1805

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left (on folded section of paper); S.\t Memin del.\t & sc.\t

Subjects

Portrait; Thomas Jefferson

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Engraving, Stipple Engraving, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Physiognotrace, Pantograph

Dimensions (inches)

4.1 (H) , 2.5 (W) , 2.9 (Image H) , 2.3 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

10.3 (H) , 6.4 (W) , 2.9 (Image H) , 2.3 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements taken at center of image.

Watermark

none

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 216, pp. 321-322.
[Book] Saunders, Richard H. & Miles, Ellen G. 1987 American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776.
• See cat. no. 446, pp. 326-27 (Winterthur's engraving not listed.)
[Book] Miles, Ellen G. 1994 Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America.
• Print listed as cat. no. 446, p. 326.
[Book] Cunningham, Noble E. 1981 The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye: Portraits for the People 1800-1908.
• See pp. 79-86.
[Book] Bush, Alfred L. 1962 The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson.
• Print listed as cat. no. 17, pp. 65-67.
[Article] Rice, Howard C. 1959 "Saint-Memin's Portrait of Jefferson,". Princeton University Library Chronicle. 20: 182-192.
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