Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WASHINGTON.) David Edwin, engraver. Washington, Sacred to Memory. Stipple engraving, 16 x 11 3/4 inches; moderate toning, 5 small punctures in image area, minor dampstaining on bottom edge. Philadelphia: D. Kennedy, circa 1800
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Third state, with new border and title, repurposing the original plate as a memorial print. Here F. Bartoli is credited as the artist, "revised by I.J. Barrelet" (who presumably engraved the border). It was based in part on the Gilbert Stuart Athenaeum portrait, although Hart describes it as fictitious. Hart 788b; Wick 61.