Mrs. Morris (after Gilbert Stuart)

 

Henry Wolf

  1852 - 1916 (biography)

1899  

woodengraving 

5 15/16 x 5" image 

pencil, lower right 

9 (this is impression 7) 

pencil titled & dated 

exhibited at 1915 PPIE, #7495 (with orig. label ) 

very fine ivroy wove 

proof 

artist 

7102 

$500.00 

In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many, such as this, were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE, with his return address and the edition size and original price of $18.00 noted. This engraving, after a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1795, is of Mrs. Robert Morris (Mary White). The oil is in the collection of the New York Public Library. Robert Morris, from Philadelphia, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. A banker, he was known as the "financier of the American Revolution".