Object Number 1968.0394.037

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

George Calvert/ the first Lord Baltimore

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.

Edward J. Coale (Publisher)

Place of Origin

Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right in image; Edwin sc.
2. Inscription; Center below image; From an Original Painting in the great gallery,/ of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam.

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Crayon manner engraved, Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

8.7 (H) , 5.6 (W) , 5.94 (Image H) , 3.5 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

22.1 (H) , 14.1 (W) , 5.94 (Image H) , 3.5 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 8.12 in. (20.62 cm). Print W: 4.9 in. (12.44 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Coale, Edward J.

Publication Date

1811

Place of Publication

Baltimore, Baltmore County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Frontispiece from John Leeds Bozman, A Sketch of the History of Maryland during the three first years after its settlement; to which is prefixed, a copious introduction (Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1811).

Object Description

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