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On Display: House - Essex Hall
Print (Line etching)
AN EXACT VIEW OF THE LATE BATTLE AT CHARLESTOWN. June 17·\TH 1775.__
Bernard Romans, Wallis & Stonehouse
June 4 1776 (1776-1776)
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator/Artist/Maker
Bernard Romans (Etcher)
Place of Origin
London; London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1959.1550 A
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1959.1550 A
Object Name
Print (Line etching)
Title
AN EXACT VIEW OF THE LATE BATTLE AT CHARLESTOWN. June 17·\TH 1775.__
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator (Role)
Bernard Romans (Etcher); Wallis & Stonehouse (Publisher)
Place of Origin
London; London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
June 4 1776 (1776-1776)
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Lower right, beneath image
Inscription: B. Romans Fecit.
Type: Inscription
Location: Lower right, beneath title
Inscription: London. Printed for Mess.\rs Wallis & Stonehouse, N.\o 16 Ludgate Street, as the Act directs June 4, 1776.
Mark/Signature: Yes
Subject(s)
- Historical
- Landscape
- Military
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Etched with burin work
Dimensions (inches)
12.8 (H) x 17.5 (L) x 10.8 (Image H) x 15.7 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
32.6 (H) x 44.5 (L) x 27.5 (Image H) x 40 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
H at left. W at bottom. Plate H (at left): 12.0 in. (30.2 cm). Plate W (at bottom): 16.5 in. (42.0 cm). Chain intervals: 2.8-2.9 cm; 9 laid lines per cm.
Publisher Summary
Wallis & Stonehouse
Publisher Date
06/04/1776
Place of Publication
No. 16 Ludgate Street, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Publisher Name
Wallis & Stonehouse
Edition Watermark
Lily in a shield with a coronet at the top and the initials "LVG"
Edition Notes
Watermark is a Van Gelder Strassburg lily.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 50, pp.136-37.Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 108, pp. 172-73.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 fall meeting of the Walpole Society selected from the collection of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 99 p.
• Published: no. 81, p. 37.Article: Richards, Nancy E. 11//1971 The print collection at Winterthur, Part II. Antiques. 100 (5): 734-739.
• Published: fig. no. 5, p. 737.Book: Stokes, I. N. Phelps & Haskell, Daniel Carl. 1932 American Historical Prints: Early Views of American Cities, Etc.
• Variant of this print listed as 1775-B-91.