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[Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, bust, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art

[Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, bust, facing right] — antique engraving
[Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, bust, facing right]. Antique engraving 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, bust, facing right]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, bust, facing right]

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Samuel Adams, the Boston politician and organizer of colonial resistance to British taxation, is shown here in a profile bust turned to the right, a format that engravers often used to give a sitter a formal, classical dignity. The record gives no date for the plate, so it is best understood within the broad period of his public career, which ran from the Stamp Act crisis of the 1760s through the Revolution and the early years of the new republic. Portraits of Adams circulated widely in that era as political figures became subjects for printmakers, and the profile view points to a deliberate effort to present him as a statesman rather than a casual likeness.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,006 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123635

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