Joseph Whipple

19th century

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Artist, French, 1770 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving with roulette on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.264

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miles 1994, no. 943

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

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

Inscriptions

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).

Wikidata ID

Q77012576

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