James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States – Historic Reproduction
![James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4a/4ad22a4c01d1-L.webp)
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States
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Among Nathaniel Currier's many portraits of public men, this one is notable for labeling its subject as the fifteenth president, a title James Buchanan did not hold until 1857. The print's date range ends in 1856, the year Buchanan won the Democratic nomination and ran for president, so it likely circulated during that campaign. It was issued under Currier's name alone, before his partnership with James Ives began, and because the color was added by hand, no two surviving copies look exactly alike. Buchanan, a Pennsylvania lawyer and former diplomat, was a familiar public figure by the mid-1850s.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3399 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,037 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174781 |
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