Object Number 1959.0116 A

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

HENRY LAURENS ESQ.\R PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS, 1778.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Valentine Green (Mezzotinter)
1739-1813

John Singleton Copley (Painter)
07/03/1738-09/09/1815

John Stockdale (Publisher)
c. 1749-1814

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

October 1 1782 (1782-1782)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; Painted by J.S. Copley, R.A. Elect. 1782.
2. Inscription ; Lower right, beneath image; Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector Palatine.
3. Inscription; Bottom left, beneath title; Publish'd Oct,,\r 1,,\st 1782, by J. Stockdale Bookseller, N,,\o 181 opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.

Subjects

Armorial device; Portrait; Native American; American Indian

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Mezzotint, Etched

Dimensions (inches)

25.9 (H) , 16.9 (W) , 23.1 (Image H) , 15.9 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

65.8 (H) , 43 (W) , 23.1 (Image H) , 15.9 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Plate H: 25.2 in. (64.0 cm). Plate W: 15.9 in. (40.5 cm). Chain interval: 3.3 cm; 9 laid lines per cm.

Publisher Summary

Stockdale, John

Publication Date

10/01/1782

Place of Publication

181 Piccadilly, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

State

Scratch-letter proof

Watermark

"IHS" in a circle, below a cross and above a heart; countermark of "T DUPUY FIN AUVERGNE"

Edition Notes

Chaloner-Smith records only one state, but this one appears to be an earlier impression as it is a scratch-letter proof.

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. 31, pp. 98-99.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 70, pp. 122-123.
[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 113, p. 44.
[Book] Whitman, Alfred. 1902 British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green.
• Print listed as cat. no. 117, p. 99.
[Book] Smith, John Chaloner. 1884 British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present century. 2. 461-940.
• Print listed as cat. no. 80, pp. 568-569.
[Article] Gustafson, Eleanor H. 02//2001 Collectors' notes: A Virtual Carpet in Charleston. Antiques. 158: 284.
• The carpet is identified as a Bergama or Bergama-type rug.