Edward Gallaudet (April 30, 1809 – October 11, 1847) was an American nineteenth-century engraver.

History

Edward Gallaudet was the twelfth son of

Peter Wallace Gallaudet Peter Wallace Gallaudet (April 21, 1756 – May 17, 1843) was a personal secretary to US President George Washington in Philadelphia. He married Jane "Jeannette" Hopkins of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1787. Gallaudet lost both parents by the age of 1 ...

the personal secretary to US President George Washington while his office was in Philadelphia. Peter Wallace Gallaudet was the nephew of Elisha Gallaudet, the engraver of the first US coin, the 1776 Continental Dollar. Gallaudet was an apprentice engraver in Hartford, Connecticut. He then moved to Boston where he worked with John Cheney. He was a reputable line engraver and his best work was between 1835 and 1840. He also worked in New York City. He died at 38 years old.

Notable works

Around 1830, Edward Gallaudet engraved

Ann Hall Ann (or Anne) Hall (1792–1863) was an American painter and miniaturist. Ann Hall has been described as the most successful miniature painter active in early nineteenth-century New York, renowned for her engaging portraits, especially of child ...

s miniature portrait of ''

Garafilia Mohalbi Garafilia Mohalbi(y) (; 1817 – March 17, 1830) was a Greek slave that was rescued by an American merchant and sent to live with his family in Boston, Massachusetts. Born to a prominent family on the island of Psara, her parents were killed in 18 ...

''. The engraving became extremely popular throughout the United States and became Ann Halls most popular work. Notable poet

Hannah Flagg Gould Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 – September 5, 1865) was a 19th-century American poet. Her father had been a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for t ...

wrote a poem about Gallaudet's engraving. The ''Progress of Intemperance'' is another engraving designed, engraved, and published by Edward Gallaudet. The work was published in 1831, in Boston, Massachusetts. The engraving was a series of six smaller engravings that give a portrait of a man as he descends from sobriety to drunkenness. This piece is derived from

William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like s ...

's ''A Rake's Progress'', it features his hero progressing from debt into madness.

Alvan Fisher Alvan Fisher (August 9, 1792February 13, 1863) was one of the United States's pioneers in landscape painting and genre works. Early years He was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the fourth of Aaron and Lucy (Stedman) Fisher's six sons. He mov ...

was an American pioneer of landscape painting. He turned most of his paintings into engravings. Gallaudet was commissioned to make many of the engravings. ''The Rescue Party'' by Alvan Fisher is one of the paintings that was also engraved. In, 1836 Gallaudet engraved ''The Whirlwind'' a painting by

Thomas Cole Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintin ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallaudet, Edward 1809 births 1847 deaths Artists from Boston 19th century in Boston American engravers