[Miscellaneous engravings] [graphic]
name: label: Creator
content: Argosy Book Shop
label: Names
content: Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818 -- Portraits
label: Names
content: Ames, Fisher, 1758-1808 -- Portraits
label: Names
content: Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 -- Portraits
label: Names
content: Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859 -- Portraits
label: Names
content: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 -- Portraits
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1958 by the Argosy Book Shop. It is possible that these engravings were part of the Benson Lossing papers, the Robert Fridenberg Gallery records, or the Bland Gallery records, all donated to the Archives in 1958.
creator: label: Creator
content: Argosy Book Shop
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Book, print shop; New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Engravings (ink on paper, 11.5 x 15.5 cm. and smaller, on sheet 20.5 x 26.5 cm. and smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1820-ca.1920]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.argobook
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Engravings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Miscellaneous engravings, including portraits (7) and naval/marine scenes (4), donated by the Argosy Book Shop.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Portraits include: (information from item): Mrs. John C. Adams (Abigail Smith), from an original picture by C. Schessele in possession of the publishers, N.Y., D. Appleton & Co.; Fisher Ames, painted by [Gilbert] Stuart, Engraved by T. Kellys; Elisa (?) Fry, likeness from a painting by C.K.Leslie, R.A.; John J. Pershing, Anderson-Lamb, N.Y.; Wm. H. Prescott, Engraved by T.B. Welch from a daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawse; [Benjamin Rush], unidentified; Sir Henry Vanel, fifth Governor of Massachusetts - born 1612 - beheaded 1662, D. Kimberly (?).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ships/naval scenes include: a color engraving," A South-East View of the CITY OF BOSTON in North America--1723, London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, No.69 St. Paul's Church Yard; frontispiece from "American Water" (?); 1 page with 3 different riverboats: "The Osage," "Black Hawk," and "The Choctaw," by Fred B. Scheu, [18]85; and an allegorical scene with ship in distance, angel holding from chain, "Societas Cincinnatorium Instituta MDCCLXXXIII A.D."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included is a page advertising "Copper-Plate printing by [John] Ridley, No. 263 Pearl Street, Corner of Fulton-Street".