COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03897
Record number:
03897-13
JCB call number:
D816 T483
Image title:
James Biddle Esq. of the United States Navy.
Creator 1:
J. Wood
Creator 1 role:
pinx.
Creator 2:
Thomas Gimbrede
Creator 2 dates:
1781-1832
Creator 2 role:
sc.
Place image published:
[Philadelphia]
Image publisher:
[Thomas Desilver]
Image date:
[1816]
Image function:
plate; following p. 360
Technique:
stipple engraving
Image dimension height:
10 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
10.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Portrait of James Biddle in military attire.
Source creator:
Thomson, John Lewis
Source Title:
Historical sketches of the late war, between the United States and Great Britain ...
Source place of publication:
Philadelphia
Source publisher:
Published by Thomas Desilver. Also by M. Carey and A. Small ...
Source date:
1816
notes:
Biddle served in the war against the Barbary pirates and captured the HMS Penguin while he was in command of the USS Wasp in 1814.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Biddle, James, 1783-1848
Subject headings:
United States--History--War of 1812
James Biddle Esq. of the United States Navy.
