The Bride

MediumPAPER

Object number2015.6

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionSteel Engraving: "The Bride", engraved by Charles Heath (1785-1848) after Charles Robert Leslie, RA (1794-1859), 1830; for Heath's Gallery of British Engravings (London: Longman et al., 1836), the engraving itself credited to Hurst & Co., London, and "Printed by E. Brain"; cf.; also: "The Young Bride", re-engraved by Archibald L. Dick (circa 1805-1856) for The Christian Family Magazine, or Parents' and Children's Annual, Rev. Daniel Newell (1800-1848), editor and publisher, New York, 1842. Pertains to NBWM 2003.75.2 as prototype source for the scrimshaw tooth by the so-called Ceres A Artist, William Aratus Gilpin (q.v. in Frank, Scrimshaw and Provenance), circa 1834-42.

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