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[Alexander Hamilton, bust portrait, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Alexander Hamilton, bust portrait, facing left] — historic print
[Alexander Hamilton, bust portrait, facing left]. 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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A window into the past: [Alexander Hamilton, bust portrait, facing left], preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Alexander Hamilton, bust portrait, facing left]

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Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, is shown here in a bust-length portrait turned to the left, a pose that printmakers often used for formal likenesses of statesmen. The record gives no date for this impression, so it is best understood as one of the many prints made from portraits of Hamilton that circulated widely in the decades after his death in 1804. Such images helped shape how Americans remembered the man who built the nation's early financial system and helped found the Federalist Party. Looking closely at the profile can reveal how engravers and lithographers of the period translated a famous face into a repeatable public image.

Medium1 print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127268

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