John Adams, 2nd president of the United States / on stone by A. Newsam; P.S. Duval, lith., Philada. – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of John Adams, 2nd president of the United States / on stone by A. Newsam; P.S. Duval, lith., Philada.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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John Adams, 2nd president of the United States / on stone by A. Newsam; P.S. Duval, lith., Philada.
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Drawn on stone by A. Newsam and printed by P.S. Duval in Philadelphia, this color lithograph presents John Adams, the second president, as a dignified national figure. Published by C.S. Williams around 1846, it reflects the period's appetite for affordable portrait prints that let households display likenesses of public men. Adams, a Massachusetts lawyer who served as Washington's vice president before his own term, died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence he had helped draft and champion. Lithography, which relied on greasy ink applied to prepared stone, made such colored portraits far cheaper to produce than traditional engraved plates.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Published by C.S. Williams, c1846. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Copyright by C.S. Williams. |
| Subjects | Adams, John,--1735-1826. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,747 × 4,667 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221406 |
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