Price: $3,500.00
SKU: 84842
PUBLISHER: Published according to act of Congress by John Coles, sen. Boston. Sept 7, 1804
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving
DATE: 1804.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 11 5/8 x 8 7/8" (29.4 x 22.5 cm) plus title and margins.
DESCRIPTION: <br><br> <b>Peace with all nations, Partiality to none </b><br><br> A fine example of this personification of America, showing Columbia as a proud and independent member of the family of nations.<br><br> Columbia is shown seated holding an American flag in one hand and a laurel branch in the other. The Great Seal of the United States is emblazoned on the shield resting beside her. Ships on the horizon exemplifying American commerce and various symbols in the foreground representing her arts. A ring of seventeen chain links, each filled by a star, symbolizes the strength of the expanding Union (Ohio had become the seventeenth state in 1803). The subtitle promises “Peace with all nations, Partiality to none,” referring to the United States’ long effort to remain neutral between France and Great Britain.<br><br> The engraver, Samuel Harris (1783-1810) was born in Boston, May 12, 1783. He had a short career of great brilliance and promise; but was drowned while still a student at Harvard, on July 7, 1810. "As an engraver Harris worked both in line and in stipple, and his plates possess some merit and show great promise." David McNeely Stauffer.<br><br> John Coles, Sr. (c.1749-1809). Coles was a heraldic painter in Boston. In Gross & Wallace's “Dictionary of Artists in America,” Coles is noted as having worked with John Norman during the 1780’s. Coles was first listed in the Boston Directory as a publisher and painter in 1782. In that year it is noted that he published John Norman's engraved portraits of George and Martha Washington.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Overall in good condition. Folded into quarters with some associated splitting.
REFERENCE: Catalog of American Engravings, #5472, locating a single example at Winterthur. Stauffer, American Engravers, #1277.
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