Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington
Date1817
Engraver
Peter Maverick
(1780-1831)
After
Benjamin Owen Tyler
(American, 1789 - 1855)
Geography
Made -
United States
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper; stipple and line engraving.
DimensionsOverall (H x W): 17 9/16 in. x 23 1/8 in. (44.61 cm x 58.74 cm)
Plate (H x W): 16 1/2 in. x 21 1/2 in. (41.91 cm x 54.61)
Image (H x W): 16 3/8 in. × 20 5/8 in. (41.59 cm × 52.39 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott, 1985
Object numberSC-132
DescriptionMemorial; Bust of George Washington on a pedestal framed by a free mason symbol and a radiant sun, encircled and framed with calligraphic eulogy text. A mourning document and tribute to the President.Published ReferencesCharles Henry Hart and Samuel Arlent Edwards, Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington (New York: Grolier Club of the City of New York, 1904), 337.
David McNeely Stauffer, American Engravings upon Copper and Steel, (New York: The Grolier Club, 1907).
William Spohn Baker, The Engraved Portraits of Washington with Notices of the Originals and Brief Biographical Sketches of the Painters (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Baker, 1880), 190.
MarkingsPrinted on the upper-left and upper-right corners: "Vive La Plume" “Vive Nomen”.
Printed encircling the image and text: "Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington, Columbia's Great and Successful Son: Honored be his Name”.
Printed within calligraphic frame upper-left of the image in block script: "Tho' shrined in dust, great Washington now lies, / The Memory of his Deeds Shall ever bloom; / Twin'd with proud Laurels, shall the Olive rise, / And wave unfading o'er his Honor'd Tomb”.
Printed within calligraphic frame upper-right of the image in block script: "To him ye Nations yield eternal FAME, / First on th'Heroie list enroll his Name; / High on th'ensculptur'd marble let him stand, / The undaunted Hero of his native land”.
Printed body of text on the left: "SPIRIT OF SYMPATHY from Heaven descend! / A Nation weeps, COLUMBIA, mourns a Friend! / O!ne'er to man did counteous Heaven impart / A purer spirit, a more generous heart; / And in that Heart did Nature sweetly blend, / The fearless Hero and the faithful Friend, / As some fond mother who bewails her Child, / And vents her grief in mournful accents wild; / So looked COLUMBIA'S GENIUS when stern Death, / Relentless Tyrant snatch'd her fav'rites breath".
Printed body of text on the right: "Now from the regions of Eternal Light, / To where thy soul has wing'd its joyful flight / Witness the tears that for thy loss do flow, / Behold a Nation whelm'd in silent woe: / Thy pearly drops which tremble in each eye, / Shall seeth thy spirit thron'd above the sky. / BLEST SHADE! Farewell! thy Memory ever dear, / Oft shall recieve fair Freedom's holy tears; / In each fond heart shall live thy peerless Name, / And There shall rise thy MONUMENTS of FAME".
Printed circling the portrait image within a framed border: "Sacred to the memory of the brave".
Printed below portrait: "Gen George / Washington departed this life / Decr. 14th 1799 AE 67. / And the tears of a / Nation / watered his grave".
Printed below portrait within the base of the pedestal image: "Washington's no more, by silence grief's express'd, / Lo! here he lies, his works proclaim the rest".
Printed in the bottom-left corner: "DESIGNED Written AND PUBLISHED".
Printed in the bottom-left corner: "Engraved by P. Maverick".
Printed in the bottom-right corner: "Newark N. Jersey".
Printed in the bottom-left corner: "By Benjamin O. Tyler Professor of Penmanship, New York. 1817”.
Printed below body of text on either side of portrait: "Copy-right Secured”.
Printed below body of text, centered: "Penmanship in all the Ancient and Modern hands Taught on an improved System (entirely his own) by Benjamin Owen Tyler, at No. 126 Broadway opposite City Hotel, N. York”.
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1790-1810
April 1, 1830
19th-20th Century
