VIRGINIA
29. John Blair, Emmet 9500, inscribed “Albert Rosenthal Etcher.” He also painted a portrait for Independence Hall. The two are of the same type but not alike. The etching is a younger looking picture. There is no evidence in the Emmet correspondence.
30. James Madison, Jr., Emmet 9502, inscribed “Etched by Albert Rosenthal Phila. 1888 after Painting by G. Stuart.” Stuart painted several paintings of Madison, as shown in Mason, Life of Stuart, pp. 218-9. Possibly the Rosenthal etching was derived from the picture in the possession of the Coles family of Philadelphia.
NORTH CAROLINA
31. William Blount, Emmet 9504, inscribed “Etched by Albert Rosenthal Phila. 1888.” He also painted a portrait for Independence Hall. The two are alike. In November, 1885, Moses White, of Knoxville, Tenn., wrote thus: “Genl. Marcus J. Wright, published, last year, a life of Win. Blount, which contains a likeness of him.… This is the only likeness of Gov. Blount that I ever saw.” This letter was written to Mr. Bathurst L. Smith, who forwarded it to Dr. Emmet.
32. Richard Dobbs Spaight, Emmet 9506, inscribed “Etched by Albert Rosenthal Phila. 1887.” In Independence Hall is a portrait painted by James Sharpless. On comparison these two are of the same type but not alike. The etching presents an older facial appearance. On November 8, 1886, Gen. John Meredith Read, writing from Paris, said he had found in the possession of his friend in Paris, J. R. D. Shepard, “St. Memin’s engraving of his great-grandfather Governor Spaight of North Carolina.” In 1887 and 1888, Dr. Emmet and Mr. Gratz were jointly interested in having Albert Rosenthal engrave for them a portrait of Spaight. On December 9, 1887, Gratz wrote to Emmet: “Spaight is worthy of being etched; though I can scarcely agree with you that our lithograph is not a portrait of the M. O. C. Is it taken from the original Sharpless portrait, which hangs in our old State House? … However if you are sure you have the right man in the photograph sent, we can afford to ignore the lithograph.”
33. Hugh Williamson, Emmet 9508, inscribed “Etched by Albert Rosenthal after Painting by J. Trumbull Phila. 1888,” Rosenthal also painted a copy “after John Wesley Jarvis” for Independence Hall. The two are undoubtedly from the same original source. The Emmet correspondence presents no information on this subject.
SOUTH CAROLINA
34. John Rutledge, Emmet 9510, inscribed “Etched by Albert Rosenthal Phila. 1888 after J. Trumbull.” The original painting was owned by the Misses Rutledge, of Charleston, S. C.
35. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Emmet 9512, inscribed “Etched by Albert Rosenthal Phila. 1888. Painting by Trumbull.” An oil miniature on wood was painted by Col. John Trumbull, in 1791, which is in the Yale School of Fine Arts. Pinckney was also painted by Gilbert Stuart and the portrait was owned by the family at Runnymeade, S. C. Trumbull’s portrait shows a younger face.