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[Abigail (Smith) Adams, 1744-1818, bust portrait, facing left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Abigail (Smith) Adams, 1744-1818, bust portrait, facing left] — antique engraving
[Abigail (Smith) Adams, 1744-1818, bust portrait, facing left]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Abigail (Smith) Adams, 1744-1818, bust portrait, facing left]

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Abigail Smith Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, is the sitter in this engraved bust portrait, shown in profile facing left. Her letters to her husband, many of them written while he was away on public business during the Revolution and the early republic, offer a candid view of wartime household life and of politics in the new nation. Because the caption card records no date, the engraving is best understood as a later rendering of her likeness, made in the style common to portrait prints of the period, rather than a record taken from life.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,222 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128103

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