Engraving

Title:

Genl. John McNiel

Object Name:

Engraving

Object ID:

2010.501.0723

Creator:

Willard, Henry (1800-1857); Pelton, Oliver (1798-1882)

Place of Origin:

Boston, MA

Date:

1842

Description:

Engraving. Portrait of John McNiel (1784-1850). Painted by Henry Willard (1800-1857). Engraved by Oliver Pelton (1798-1882), 1842. Steel engraving, printed on paper. Short half-length portrait of middle age man facing left, long dark hair combed back, long sideburns, wearing military-style coat, 7 buttons, long horizontal decorations associated with each button that go across front of coat and across central edge, on his right arm 4 buttons with V-shaped thin decorations angled upward from buttons, epaulets on each shoulder, shoulder boards, turned-up collar on coat with leaf vine decorations on collar, 2 buttons on collar - 1 one on each side, white shirt, turned-up collar, dark band around neck over shirt and under coat collar. Light edge exposed on inside front edge turned up collar on coat. In his right hand is a decorative sword resting on his sleeve of his right forearm; sword has straight guard adjacent to spiral wrapped handle, small scroll hilt. Decoration on sword blade near guard. On right side in background is architectural column. At left is a depiction of small tree in background. Behind him is sky with cloud near top edge all in a dark background set in upright rectangle. Engraved beneath portrait: "GENL. JOHN McNIEL." Facsimile signature beneath that: "John McNiel". "Painted by Willard". On right side at bottom edge: "Engraved by O. Pelton." From George Barstow, The History of New Hampshire: From its Discovery in 1614, to the Passage of the Toleration Act, 1819. (Concord, New Hampshire: I. S. Boyd, 1842), 128.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-9.45 W-5.9 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

McNeil, John (1784-1850), Pelton, Oliver (1798-1882), Willard, Henry (1800-1857)

Subjects:

Politics government, Soldiers, War of 1812