John Sartain and Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A.
Robert Gilmor Esq. of Baltimore
1829-1834
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Mezzotint, etching, and stipple, Sheet: 399 × 322 mm. (15 11/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Image: 232 × 189 mm. (9 1/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Reverend R. Douglas Pitt, Baltimore
Object Number
2001.346
Reverend R. Douglas Pitt, Baltimore; Mr and Mrs. Douglas Gordon, Baltimore; William Gray: Francis Calley Gray (1790-1856); Robert Gilmor(?)
For Provenance: Marjorie B. Cohn, Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America, 1986, Harvard University Art Museums, p. 176-77. Rutledge, Anna Wells, 'Robert Gilmor, Jr. Baltimore Collector,' The Journal of The Walters Art Gallery, v. XII (1949), p. 26. Reaves, Wendy Wick, American Portrait Prints, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 141, ill. p. 143. Mather, Frank Jewett Jr., et al., The Pageant of America, v. 12, The American Spirit in Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927, ill. p. 239. Baker, William S., American Engravers and their Works, Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1875, p. 152 no. 5.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: LL: 'PAINTED BY SIR THO.S LAWRENCE PRES.T OF THE ROY.L ACAD.Y/ LONDON'; LR: 'ENGRAVED BY JOHN SARTAIN. PHILAD.A'; BC: 'ROBERT GILMOR ESQ.R/ of BALTIMORE/ from the Original Picture in the Possession of R. Gilmor Esq.'; BC (graphite): 'To Mr. Gray with compliments from [Mr. or W] Gilmor'; VERSO: [check after unframed]
