Object Number 2002.0020.003 A

Object Name

Tool (for fine art) (Steel plate)

Title

Untitled (Brinton Coxe)

Category

Tools

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Weld Coxe

Creator (Role)

John Sartain (Mezzotinter)
1808-1897
Also founded and published Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art (Jan. 1849-Aug. 1852). Thought to have produced as many as 1500 plates.

Luigi Saulini (Draftsman)
1819-1893
Italian family of gem-engravers. Tommaso Saulini (b Rome, 1793; d Rome, 24 June 1864) and his son Luigi Saulini (b Rome, 1819; d Rome, 1893) had a cameo-carving workshop in Rome that they maintained successively from c. 1830 to 1883. Their activities were divided between the production of carved portraits and ambitious compositions based on Classical sculptures, ancient gems or contemporary Neo-classical subjects taken from the work of such leading contemporary artists as Bertel Thorvaldsen (with whom Tommaso had trained) and John Gibson. (Source: www.artnet.com).

John Sellers & Sons (Plate maker)
1820-1953
This firm appears to have specialized in straight-edge razors, but also made other steel objects, including knives and steel plates for engravings.

Place of Origin

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

Secondary Place of Origin

Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Date

1884-1884

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left; ON STEEL BY JOHN SARTAIN, PHILA
2. Inscription; Lower right; DRAWN BY L. SAULINI, ROME
3. Inscription; Bottom center on reverse; JOHNSELLERS&SONS / 151 ARUNDEL STREET / SHEFFIELD

Subjects

Portrait

Materials

Iron

Techniques

Mezzotint

Dimensions (inches)

12 (H) , 9.1 (W) , 10.2 (Image H) , 7.6 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

30.5 (H) , 23.1 (W) , 10.2 (Image H) , 7.6 (Image W)

Object Description

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