Object Number 1968.0394.042

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

ISAAC CHAUNCEY ESQ\R./ 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.

Joseph Wood (Painter)
1778-1830/1832
A self-portrait miniature by Wood, c. 1810, is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993.283). References: J.Hall Pleasants, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1945).

Place of Origin

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

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; J. Wood pinxt.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; D. Edwin sc.

Subjects

Portrait; Military

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

8.8 (H) , 5.6 (W) , 5.2 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

22.35 (H) , 14.2 (W) , 5.2 (Image H) , 3.2 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at left. OW at bottom. Print H: 8.13 in. (20.65 cm). Print W: 4.9 in. (12.5 cm). Plate H: 7.4 in. (18.9 cm). Plate W: 4.8 in. (12.1 cm). Plate marks very faint.

Watermark

none

Object Description

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