(French, 1756-1830) a pair of portrait profiles, Col. Paul Bentalon (1775-1826) and his wife, Katherine Bentalon, (nee Keeports, 1759-1812) of Baltimore, Colonel Paul Bentalon was a Revolutionary war hero at the Battle of Savannah, Georgia, inscribed "Dess: au physionotrace et Grave par Queneday rue neuve-des-petits-champs No 15 a Paris", engravings on paper, 3-3/4 x 3 in. (plates), 5-3/4 x 4-1/4 in. (pages); unframed, foxing, light toning, with hand-written inscriptions identifying sitters in ink in bottom margin, stains, untrimmed. Notes: Colonel Paul Bentalon was a Revolutionary war hero at the Battle of Savannah, Georgia. Edme Queneday invented the physionotrace that was later used by Saint Memin. This method allowed the almost complete engraving of a portrait from life that was given final embellishments by the engraver.. Provenance: Collected by Mrs. Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson (1770-1848), wife of Chief Justice Joseph Hopper Nicholson, and the second daughter of Col. Edward Lloyd, President of the Executive Council, under the colonial government of Maryland; by descent in the Lloyd and Shippen Family foxing, light toning, with hand-written inscriptions identifying sitters in ink in bottom margin, stains, untrimmed