Object Number 1966.0111 A

Object Name

Print (Stipple engraving)

Title

The WASHINGTON FAMILY./ La FAMILLE de WASHINGTON. // George Washington his Lady, and her Grandchildren by the name of Custis./ George Washington Son Espouse et Les deux petits Enfants du Nom de Custis.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of J. William Middendorf II

Creator (Role)

Edward Savage (Painter and engraver)
11/26/1761-07/06/1817

Edward Savage and Robert Wilkinson (Publisher)

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.

Place of Origin

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

Secondary Place of Origin

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

March 10 1798 (1798-1798)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower center beneath image; Painted & Engrav'd by E. Savage.
2. Inscription; Bottom center beneath title; Philadelphia, Publish'd March 10\th 1798 by E. Savage & Rob.\t Wilkinson N.\o 58 Cornhill London.

Subjects

Portrait; Washington, George

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Stipple Etched, Engraved, Etched

Dimensions (inches)

21.7 (H) , 26.9 (W) , 18.5 (Image H) , 24.7 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

55 (H) , 68.4 (W) , 18.5 (Image H) , 24.7 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 21.1 in. (53.5 cm). Plate W: 26.2 in. (66.6 cm). H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Edward Savage and Robert Wilkinson

Publication Date

03/10/1798

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America and London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Watermark

"1794 J WHATMAN" (twice)

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. 38, pp. 112-13.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 202, pp. 307-308.
[Book] Hart, Charles Henry. 1904 Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington.
• Print listed as no. 235.
[Book] Stauffer, David McNeely. 1907 American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel.
• Print listed as no. 2754, pp. 456-457.
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• For information about Savage's painting, see cat. no. 46, pp. 76-7.