Item 42: An Etching of John Wilkes by Caroline Watson, titled “Iohn Wilkes, Esqr.,” after [Robert Edge Pine], Printed by [Richard Phillips], [1804]
Item — Box: 6, Folder: 42
Dates
- Created: [1804]
Creator
- Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788 (Person)
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Etching
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
8 ¼ in. x 6 in.
Title:
John Wilkes
Description:
The following item depicts an etching of John Wilkes (1725-1797), by Caroline Watson, after an original drawing by Robert Edge Pine. In the image, Wilkes is depicted in a bust length oval portrait. He is seated three-quarters to left at a table, wearing a coat with braiding, frilled cravat and cuff, powdered hair brushed back, right hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper, looking up to left.
Caroline Watson (1760-1814) was a skilled Irish engraver who learned under her father and was the only woman engraver to work independently in the 18th Century. Her etching is based on a painting of the same drawn from nature by Robert Edge Pine (1730-1788). This etching was created for the cover of The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes, with his Friends, a catalog record of the letters of John Wilkes (1725-1797) and his associates. The printing was done by Sir Richard Phillips, a printer and English bookseller.
This etching bears a strong resemblance to 6.13 Item 12,but with the exceptions that in this etching, Wilkes is holding a quill in his raised hand and that he is not wearing an overcoat.
The creators and dates for this item were ascertained by a comparison with a similar item digitized on the British Museum’s website. The difference between the two is that their manuscript has text printed beneath the image and ours possesses a signature.
Transcription:
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Creator
- Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788 (Person)
- Watson, Caroline, ca. 1760/61-1814 (Person)
- Phillips, Richard, 1767-1840 (Person)
Repository Details
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