Gobrecht’s First Eagle?

By Len Augsburger from The E-Gobrecht January 2009 Volume 5 Issue 1

An engraving clearly derived from the Great Seal of the United States appears in “The Children in the Wind,” a book published byWarner and Hanna in Baltimore in 1806. The connection to Christian Gobrecht lies in the fact that Gobrecht supplied and signed other engravings in this volume.

This particular engraving is unsigned, but Gobrecht seems a likely candidate. Other engravings on the book are alternately signed “C. Gobrecht”, “C G,” or “Gobright,” suggesting that Gobrecht considered using an Anglicized spelling of his last name.

Still other engravings, as this one, are unsigned. Gobrecht executed other engravings for Warner and Hanna during this period and appears to have had an ongoing relationship with the firm prior to his move to Philadelphia, c. 1815.

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