Series I: Portraits
Scope and Contents note
Series I. Portraits date from 1796 to 1808 and contains profile portrait engravings, made after drawings by Saint-Mémin and his early partner Valdenuit, assisted by a physiognotrace mechanism. Profile portraits in this collection were made in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore, and Burlington, NJ, often of government notables and upper-class urban dwellers. The series is arranged into three subseries: Portrait album; Framed portraits, and Loose portraits.
In 1862, Elias Dexter published a book of Saint-Mémin's American portraits, each of which was photographed by Gurney & Son. While some sitters were misidentified in Dexter's volume, it has been used as a standard means for identification of the Saint-Mémin portraits. Dexter's number (which does not correspond to a chronological or alphabetical listing) follows the sitter's name in the Container List.
Subseries I. Portrait Album
Scope and Contents note
The Portrait album holds twenty-eight portraits, bound together in a small, leather-covered album. In general, these engravings were trimmed to their plate borders and pasted on to the album pages. There does not seem to be an order to the portraits; they have been listed in the container list in the order they appear in the album.
The portraits in the album are listed as they appear. Inscriptions are noted.
Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de (D. 5), 1804
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Philadelphia
Somerville, William Clarke (D. 624), 1808
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Richmond
Bayard, James Asheton (D. 421), 1801
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philadela."
Griffin, Thomas (D. 479), 1805
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Washington
Clarke, William (D. 477), 1807
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Washington
Gilmor, Mary Ann Smith (D.284), 1803
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Inscr. "St. M. delt. & sct." Baltimore
Dana, Samuel Whittelsey (D. 430), 1806
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Washington
Dallas, Alexander James (D. 138), 1801
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Philadelphia
Campbell, Levin Hicks (D. 376), 1804
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Baltimore
Ormsby, Sarah Mahon (D. 38), [1801]
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Philadelphia
Darieu (D. 256), 1800
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philada."
Henry, Isaac (D. 421), 1802
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philada."
Thieubert (D. 249), 1803
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Philadelphia
Bryan, Joseph (D. 486), 1805
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Washington
Coale, Edward Johnson (D. 338), 1804
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Baltimore
Gilmor, William (D. 353), 1803
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Baltimore
Bartlett, Bailey (D. 472), 1800
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philadela."
Purviance, Samuel Dinsmore (D.431), 1805
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Washington
Tucker, Thomas Tudor (D. 412), 1805
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Washington
Lewden, Joseph (D. 294), 1802
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philada."
Guenet (D. 324), 1803
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Philadelphia
Newton, Thomas Jr. (D.497), 1806
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Washington
Huger, Benjamin (D. 488), 1805
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Washington
Burrall, Jonathan (D. 41), 1798-1803
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Philadelphia
Powell, Leven (D. 462), 1800
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philadelphia"
Morton, Cornelia Schuyler (D. 37), 1797
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Inscr. "St. Memin & Valdenuit No. 27 Pine St. N. York"
Boyd, John Parker (D. 222), 1802
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philada."
Rush, Benjamin (D. 153), 1802
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Inscr. "Benjamin Rush" Philadelphia
Subseries II. Framed Portraits
Scope and Contents note
Framed portraits include three small individual engravings and two larger frames holding composite portraits. The frames may or may not have been contemporary with the engravings, but all seem to be nineteenth century in origin. The largest frame, with a total of twenty engravings, includes eighteen Saint-Mémin portraits of United States Congressmen, as well as two profiles, not by Saint-Mémin, of George Washington and John Adams. Another frame holds four portraits, all New Yorkers.
Lincklaen, Helen Ledyard (D. 735), 1798
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Philadelphia
Lincklaen, John (D. 111), 1796-1797
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New York
Thurman, John [Dr. Hill] (D. 56), 1797-1798
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Van Rensselaer, Stephen (D. 55), 1797
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Composite of Four Portraits
Barclay, Andrew B.? (D. 60), 1796
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Cuyler, James (D. 78), 1796-1797
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Inscr. "Valdenuit & St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
De Peyster, Nicholas Jr. (D. 86), 1797
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Thompson, Thomas (D. 91), 1797
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Composite of Twenty Portraits (Eighteen by Saint-Mémin). All members of Congress, taken in Washington
Baldwin, Simeon (D.448), 1807
Betton, Silas (D. 500), 1805
Campbell, John (D. 427), 1806
Dana, Samuel Whittelsey (D. 430), 1806
Davenport, John (D. 426), 1806
Dwight, Thomas (D. 436), 1806
Griffin, Thomas (D. 479), 1805
Hastings, Seth (D. 435), 1806
Hunt, Samuel Jr. [Thompson] (D. 498), [1805]
Lewis, Joseph (D. 474), 1805
Livingston, Henry Walter (D. 433), 1804
Lowndes, Thomas (D. 496), 1805
Nicholson, Joseph Hopper [Stephenson, James] (D 475), [1806]
Pickering, Timothy (D. 434), 1806
Plumer, William (D. 481), 1806
Purviance, Samuel Dinsmore (D.431), 1805
Stedman, William (D. 437), 1805
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen Kiliaen (D. 438), 1805
Subseries III. Loose Portraits
Scope and Contents note
Seventeen loose portraits are filed alphabetically.
Armstrong, William (D. 8), 1797
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Inscr. "Valdenuit & St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York 97"
Bloomfield, Joseph (D. 186), 1798
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New York
Bruce, Archibald (D. 51 ), 1796-1797
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Inscr: "St. Memin & Valdenuit No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Bullus, John (D. 511), 1807
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Washington
Clinton, Cornelia Tappen (no Dexter #), 1797
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"; Four copies
Clinton, George (no Dexter #), 1797
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"; Four copies
Clinton, James (D. 57), 1797
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Inscr. "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Clinton, Mary Little Gray (D. 742), 1798
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Inscr: "St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York"
Izard, Ralph II (D. 395), 1805
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Washington
Lawrence, James (D. 35), 1810
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possibly Burlington, N.J.
Livingston, Eliza Barclay (D. 302), 1797
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Inscr. "Valdenuit & St. Memin No. 27 Pine St. N.York 97"
McIlvaine, Joseph (D. 22), 1798
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd by St. Memin Burlington"
Robertson, Thomas Bolling (D. 614), 1807-1808
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Richmond
Simmons, James (D. 216), 1806
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Washington
Tayloe, John, III (D. 408), 1806
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Washington
Washington, William Augustine III (D. 924), 1804
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Washington
White, John Moore (D. 168), 1798-1803
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Inscr. "Drawn & engrd by St. Memin Philada."