Specimen Engraver's Sample Sheet Engraver: Danforth, Bald & Co. (American, 1850–52)

ca. 1850

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

unframed: 35 1/4 × 31 1/4 in. (89.5 × 79.4 cm)
framed: 45 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (115.9 × 11.7 cm)

Credit Line

The Susan G. and John W. Jackson, B.A. 1967, Numismatics Acquisition Endowment Fund

Accession Number

2021.66.38

Geography

Made in New York, New York, United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Sale, R.M. Smythe & Co., Chicago, March 2, 2001, lot 2452; sold to Jack Vorhies, Greenwood, Ind., March 2, 2001; probable sale to Bruce Rolland Hagen, New York, 2006; sale, Stack's Galleries, New York, January 25, 2011, lot 3613; sold to Bruce Rolland Hagen, New York, January 25, 2011; sold to Michael J. Sullivan, Georgetown, Conn., later Wilton, Conn., February 5, 2014; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021
Bibliography
  • Benjamin D. R. Hellings, "Specimania: Yale's Numismatic Engravers' Sample Sheets," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2022–23), 66–67, fig. 4
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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