(Charles Balthezar Saint Memin, French, 1770-1852) Five portrait engravings by Charles Saint Memin and Edme Queneday (French, 1756-1830): Walter Dorsey (1771-1823), Judge Maryland Court of Appeals 1817-1823, 2-7/8 x 2-1/2 in. (plate); Joseph Hopper Nicholson (1770-1817), Maryland House of Delegates 1796-1798, United States Congress 1799-1806, Chief Justice Sixth District of Maryland 1806-1817, (The original drawing of this portrait is pictured as M.619, and gifted by Dr. Lloyd P. Shippen to the Smithsonian Institution), 2- 5/8 x 2-5/8 in. (plate), [abrasions]; Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772-1824), Representative in Congress 1803-1805, United States Senator 1822-1823, United States Attorney General 1807-1811, Minister to Argentina 1823-1824, inscribed in plate "Drawn & engrd. By St. Memin Philada.", 2-3/4 x 2-1/2 in. (plate), [light handling grime]; a pair, Col. Paul Bentalon (1775-1826) and his wife, Katherine Bentalon,(nee Keeports, 1759-1812) of Baltimore, he 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", Edme Queneday (French, 1756-1830), 3-3/4 x 3 in. (plates); all unframed and accompanied by portions of book and three reproduced copies of portrait miniatures, all with foxing, stitched to loose page of book, some with inscriptions on page, some trimmed closer to plate. Notes: Literature: Ellen Miles, [Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America], Smithsonian Institution, 1994. Provenance: All formerly from a journal or book dated 1802 and owned 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 all with foxing, stitched to loose page of book, some with inscriptions on page, some trimmed closer to plate