James Campbell, c. 1804 (printed 1887)

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint and engraving in black with chine collé on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 5.72 × 5.56 cm (2 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
plate: 6.99 × 6.19 cm (2 3/4 × 2 7/16 in.)

sheet: 7.62 × 6.83 cm (3 × 2 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Catalogue Raisonné

Miles 1994, no. 130

Accession Number

2015.19.1584.56.8

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: James Campbell, / of Baltimore. / From the original plate, owned by the Gallery - / See S. Goddart, vol. 1, p. 29.

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1862: Dexter, Elias. The St. Memin Collection of Portraits; Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits, Principally of Distinguished Americans. Elias Dexter: New York, 1862, no. 361.

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 262, no. 130.