Object Number 1968.0394.016

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

William Bainbridge Esq./ of the United States navy.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

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.

Gilbert Stuart (Painter)
12/03/1755-07/09/1828
References: Barratt and Miles, Gilbert Stuart (New York & New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, c2004).

Oliver Oldschool Esq. (Author)

Place of Origin

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

Date

1813-1820

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; Stuart.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Edwin sc.
3. Inscription; Bottom center below legend; Engraved for Port Folio.

Subjects

Portrait; Military

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

9 (H) , 5.6 (W) , 6.53 (Image H) , 3.4 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

22.8 (H) , 14.2 (W) , 6.53 (Image H) , 3.4 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at bottom. Print H: 8.4 in. (21.3 cm). Print W: 5.0 in. (12.6 cm). No plate marks.

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Illustration from Oliver Oldschool, Esq., The Port Folio (Philadelphia: The Editor and Asbury Dickens,1801-27). The plate used to make this print was engraved in an earlier state for the Analectic Magazine (1813-1820).

Object Description

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