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JOHN SCOLES
after Joseph Wright (1756-1793)
Engraving, 1795
Height 10.3, subheight 7.46, width 5.9, oval height 6.7, oval width 5.1

 

Boglewood: 2013
Hart: 163
Wick: 42


[Trimmed without last line] 

 

 

Source image:
Joseph Wright.
Dry point etching (1790)

  Text:
Scoles sc. / General Washington. / Publish'd by Smith, New York
 

Version I:  As shown.  Collection:  American Antiquarian Society.

Published in:  Charles Smith, The Gentleman's Political Pocket-Almanac for . . . 1976 (New York: Wayland & Davis for Smaith, [1795]).

Notes: The publisher Charles Smith advertized his almanac in The Argus or Greenleaf's New Daily Advertiser (15 January 1796): This day is published (Price 4s) And to be had of C. Smith . . . and of all the principal Booksellers in New York, & throughout the United states, Smith's Political Almanack, for the year 1796. It is ornamented with a well-engraved likeness of Gen. Washington . . . ."

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