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[John Jay, half-length portrait, seated] – Antique Photo Print

[John Jay, half-length portrait, seated] — historic print
[John Jay, half-length portrait, seated]. Historic print 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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[John Jay, half-length portrait, seated]

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John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, is shown here seated in a half-length pose, a format that let engravers and printmakers focus on the face and the bearing of a public man. The record dates the print to 1796, the year Jay was serving as Governor of New York and had recently returned from his diplomatic mission to Britain, which produced the treaty that bears his name. Portraits of Jay circulated widely in those years, when American political reputations were built as much through printed likenesses as through speeches. The Library of Congress holds this example among its Prints and Photographs collections.

Medium1 print.
Notes1796
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,169 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118040

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