Joseph Whipple, 19th century

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving with roulette on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 5.72 × 5.72 cm (2 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
plate: 6.99 × 6.51 cm (2 3/4 × 2 9/16 in.)

sheet: 19.84 × 15.08 cm (7 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Miles 1994, no. 943

Accession Number

2015.19.264

Artists / Makers

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (artist) French, 1770 - 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in black ink by unknown hand: Duplicate; lower center in black ink by unknown hand: St. Memin print of Joseph Whipple (not / General Horatio Gates), from copper / plate owned by Mrs. Fanny Pickering / Heffenger of Portsmouth, N.H. (See / correspndence).

Provenance

Fanny Pickering Heffenger, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1908; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 429, no. 943.