Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Portrait of a woman with ruffled shawl].
Call Number
E East 46/GC077/Box 13/Normal/18th c./Artists S-Z GA 2012.00313
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcrr172955r
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1961 (restrike) ; 1797 (original plate).
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1961
Extent
1 item ; sheet 12.7 x 8.1 cm.
References
Hennequin, Rene. Les portraits au physionotrace, graves de 1788 a 1830. Troyes : Societe Academique de l'Aube, 1932, p. 147.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Restrikes, Physiognotrace works
Artist information: Saint-Memin was Valdenuit's business partner in New York.
Depiction: Bust portrait, left profile of a woman wearing ruffled shawl.
Item description: Impression from the copperplate of the physiognotrace portrait by C.B.J. Fevret de Saint-Memin.
Provenance: Restrike from the original copperplate, made in 1961. The copperplate acquired in Paris by a dealer, J. Bender; then to J.K. Leeds of Elizabeth, N.J., who had the restrike made and presented it to Princeton Library. cf. correspondence, 1960-1961, with Bender and Leeds.
Signed in plate, below: "Drawn by Grimaldi G. Engraved by Valdenuit N. York J 1797".

Discovery Information

Subject
Portraits, American—18th century
Women—United States—18th century—Portraits
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9dd84cfe-a854-43f8-a695-bf4c214a2441/manifest