Plan of the Siege of Savannah

1796

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Artist, French, 1770 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving in black on laid paper mounted to brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.11 × 23.34 cm (8 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 23.18 × 25.4 cm (9 1/8 × 10 in.)
    mount: 29.21 × 40.64 cm (11 1/2 × 16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1584.58.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miles 1994, no. 985

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Dijon, France; Léon Victor Raoul Leclerc, Vicomte de Juigné (the artist's nephew), Dijon, France, 1852; (Henry Stevens, London, England, c. 1859); William W. Corcoran, Washington, DC, c. 1874; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1875; 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. 438, no. 985.

Inscriptions

upper right in plate: Pl. V; lower center in plate: Published by C. Smith New York; lower right in plate: St. Memin sculp.

Wikidata ID

Q77013826

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