Patrick Henry
Date unknown
Medium
Stipple etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 9.5 × 8 cm (3 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 12.1 cm (8 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Classification
reproduction
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
274505
Art Historical Context
This delicate stipple etching, titledPatrick Henry*, captures the likeness of the renowned American Revolutionary orator (1736–1799), famous for his impassioned cry, "Give me liberty or me death!" Created by William Satchwelley, a prolific Anglo-American engraver active in the late 18th early 19th centuries the print is a reproduction likely derived from an earlier portrait. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings department, its modest dimensions—image at 9.5 × 8 cm—made it ideal for wide distribution in books, pamphlets, or personal collections. Stipple etching, Leney's fav...