[Lafayette mourning at the tomb of Franklin] [graphic].

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Enoch Wood and Sons.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Portraits.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier.

Genre:

Aquatints.

Aquatints (prints)

Physical Description:

1 print : manganese-brown aquatint ; image diameter 17 cm + 1 sheet (30 x 36 cm)

Place of Publication:

[Burslem : Enoch Wood and Sons, between 1818-1846]

Summary:

"Circular aquatint printed in manganese-brown on thin wove paper from a copperplate produced for the transfer decoration of earthenware pottery (171 mm.; trimmed to the subject) ... Fanciful Romantic conception of the American Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, mourning Benjamin Franklin, founding father and American ambassador to France. Nature, in the form of outsized flowers and verdure, frame the scene. The nobleman, seated before the tomb, is lost in contemplation, his book abandoned. In the distance, sunrise illuminates a ship and temple, representing commerce and religion."--Bookseller's description.

Notes:

Title from typescript label affixed to sheet on which this item was once mounted.

Enoch Wood and Sons traded under that name from 1818 to 1846.

Variant version of Enoch Wood and Sons' Lafayette mourning Washington. Cf. W.L. Little, Staffordshire blue (New York: Crown, 1969), plate 81.

Local Notes:

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.

RBC copy: "[S]mall lacuna in the border, two transparent tabs adhered just into the image area"--Bookseller's description.

OCLC:

1035535718