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[John Roger Fenwick, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[John Roger Fenwick, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile], [Washington, D.C. : 1806] — antique engraving
[John Roger Fenwick, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile], [Washington, D.C. : 1806]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [John Roger Fenwick, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile], an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Shown in right profile and cropped close to the head and shoulders, this 1806 engraving records John Roger Fenwick (1773-1842) as a young man in Washington, D.C. The profile was made in the style of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, the French émigré who worked in America around the turn of the nineteenth century. He used a mechanical device, the physionotrace, to trace a sitter's outline, then reduced and engraved it as a small, precise likeness. Such profiles were popular with families and visitors who wanted an affordable portrait, and they reflect the Neoclassical taste for clean outline and restrained detail. Ellen G. Miles's 1994 study catalogues this print as number 317.

Created / published[Washington, D.C. : 1806]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenrePortrait prints 1800-1810.Engravings 1800-1810.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 410 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, 1994, no. 317.
SubjectsFenwick, John Roger,--1773-1842.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,531 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135238

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