Object Number 1968.0394.052

Object Name

Print (Engraving)

Title

COOKE/ as Sir Pertinax Macsycophant

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.

Charles Robert Leslie (Artist)
1794-1859

Stephen Cullen Carpenter (Author)-c. 1820

Bradford and Inskeep (Publisher)

William M'Ilkenny (Publisher)

Place of Origin

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

Secondary Place of Origin

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; C.R.Leslie del.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; D.Edwin sc.
3. Inscription; Bottom center below legend; Engrav'd for Mirror of Taste.

Subjects

Portrait; Literary scene; Shakespeare, William

Materials

Ink; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Stipple engraved, Crayon manner engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

7.58 (H) , 4.8 (W) , 5.74 (Image H) , 3.4 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

19.25 (H) , 12.1 (W) , 5.74 (Image H) , 3.4 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

OH at right. OW at top. Print H: 6.98 in. (17.73 cm). Print W: 4.14 in. (10.51 cm). No plate marks.

Publisher Summary

Bradford and Inskeep

Publication Date

1811

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Edition Notes

Illustration from S.C. Carpenter, The Mirror of taste, and Dramatic censor (Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Boston: William M'Ilkenny, 1810-11).

Object Description

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