Enoch G. Gridley
Pater Patriae

ArtistAmerican, active c. 1800–1818
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pater Patriae
Datec. 1800
Probable placePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Probable placeNew York , New York, United States
MediumStipple and line engraving with etching on wove paper
DimensionsImage: 13 1/16 × 8 7/8 in. (33.1 × 22.6 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 13 15/16 × 9 3/4 in. (35.4 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the family and friends of Dr. Robert A. McClure
Object numberB.96.5
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Americans marked the death of George Washington with a variety of mourning imagery, including prints and schoolgirl embroideries based on print prototypes (B.86.13). This rare engraving, based on a lost painting by John Coles, Jr., incorporates iconography appropriate to the new nation: a liberty cap, a mourning Columbia, and a banner citing Washington’s military victories. The oval image of Washington is based on Edward Savage’s life portrait of 1792. 

Related examples: Brown University, Providence; Historic Deerfield; MFA, Boston; MMA; Winterthur (Fowble 1987, p. 461, no. 325). Another is illustrated in Deutsch 1977, p. 325. 

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


Provenance[The Old Print Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Exhibition History"Radicals and Revolutionaries: America's Founding Fathers," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 10–May 28, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed: see Fowble 1987, p. 461, no. 325
[no marks]

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