Franklin Pierce: Democratic candidate for fourtheenth president of the United States – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Franklin Pierce: Democratic candidate for fourtheenth president of the United States, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Franklin Pierce: Democratic candidate for fourtheenth president of the United States
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Printed in New York by Nathaniel Currier, this hand-colored lithograph presents Franklin Pierce as the Democratic candidate for the nation's fourteenth presidency. Pierce, a former New Hampshire congressman and a brigadier general in the Mexican-American War, emerged as a dark horse nominee at the party's 1852 convention in Baltimore. The portrait was adapted from a daguerreotype by T. Dunlap, so it reworks a photographic likeness by hand for the printed market, a common practice before photographs could be reproduced directly in newspapers and books.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1852. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860. |
| Notes | After a daguerreotype by T. Dunlap. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2304 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,084 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174474 |
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