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John Drayton, Governor of South Carolina

Governor John Drayton (Drayton Hall, South Carolina, 1766 - 1822): John Drayton was voted governor of South Carolina from 1800 to 1802 and from 1808 to 1810. He received his education at the College of New Jersey and completed his studies at the Inner Temple, London, between 1779 and 1785. Drayton served in the House of Representatives (1792-1798) and was also elected lieutenant governor. As governor of South Carolina he was responsible for the creation of South Carolina College, which later became the University of South Carolina. He was also the college's first president. Later in his life, Drayton was appointed a United States District Judge by President Madison.

This miniature portrait of the eminent American, "John Drayton, Governor of South Carolina" is an original physiognotrace (physionotrace) engraving, School of Charles de Saint-Memin created around 1802.

Original Physiognotrace (Physionotrace) Engraving,
School of Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin 'Charles de Saint-Memin'.

John Drayton, Governor of South Carolina

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Title:	John Drayton, Governor of South Carolina
Artist:	de Saint-Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret 'Charles de Saint-Memin' (Dijon, 1770 - Paris, 1852)
Date:	c. 1802
Medium:	Original Physiognotrace (Physionotrace) Engraving
Note:	Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin 'Charles de Saint-Memin': The father of the American physiognotrace engraving, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin was sent to Paris in 1784 and enrolled in the French military academy. Upon graduation he joined the household guard of King Louis XVI. At the outbreak of the French Revolution he left France for Switzerland and, in 1793, arrived in Canada. Later in that year, Charles de Saint-Memin settled in New York. Several years later he entered into a partnership with Thomas Bluget de Valdenuit (1763-1846), who was also a former French military officer. Both men began advertising the physiognotrace portrait process, where the completed engraving would measure about two inches in diameter and finished with etching and aquatint (which is here the case). By 1803 a Philadelphia engraver, Louis Lemet (1779-1832) was also creating similar portraits employing this new technique.
	In 1814 Charles de Saint-Memin returned to France. By that time he had travelled throughout both the northern and southern states, creating about eight hundred miniature portraits of eminent Americans. Today major collections of Saint-Memin portraits are housed in the Smithsonian Institution and in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Clearly, the historic importance of these early American portrait engravings has long made them highly sought after.
	"The physiognotrace had been invented by Gilles-Louis Chretien in 1786, when he was a court musician at Versailles. ... The machine was the size of an easel, about five feet high. It stood on three legs, and in the center, on a flat vertical surface, it held a large piece of paper, about twenty inches high. Attached to the crossbars at the bottom of the stand was one end of a movable device called a pantograph, whose rodlike sections extended upward across the sheet of paper. Attached to the top of the pantograph was a rod with a small eyepiece in the center. As the operator stood and looked through the eyepiece at the sitter, he moved the vertical rod to follow the sitter's profile, and a pencil at the lower end of the rod traced the profile on the paper. ... After the general areas of the portrait were blocked out, the artist would complete the drawing in chalk. The next stage of the process, if the sitter so desired, was to reduce the portrait in order to make an engraving." *
Reference:	* Ellen Miles, "Saint-Memin, Valdenuit, Lemet: Federal Profiles," (pp. 1 - 28) W. W. Reaves, ed., American Portrait Prints, the Smithsonian Institution, University Press of Virginia, 1984. Introductory Quotation on pp. 6 - 8.
Size:	2 3/4 X 2 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon early nineteenth century hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as printed around the above date. A beautifully printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. "John Drayton, governor of South Carolina" represents a prime example of early American portraiture and of Physiognotrace engraving.
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