Plan of the Siege of Savannah, 1796

Not on View

Medium

engraving in black on laid paper mounted to brown wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Miles 1994, no. 985

Accession Number

2015.19.1584.58.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

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

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson
Leclerc, Léon Victor Raoul
Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de
Stevens, Henry Jr.

Bibliography

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 438, no. 985.