Henry Dearborn, 1751-1829 – Antique Print
![Henry Dearborn, 1751-1829, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7aeebf110dc2-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.)
Description
Henry Dearborn, 1751-1829 comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Henry Dearborn, 1751-1829
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This portrait shows Henry Dearborn, a Massachusetts-born officer who rose from a Revolutionary War captain to a senior commander and later became a public official. He marched with Benedict Arnold's expedition against Quebec in 1775 and served under Gen. Horatio Gates at Saratoga. Thomas Jefferson later named him Secretary of War, a post he held from 1801 to 1809, when the young federal army was small and its leaders were still defining its role. The caption card for this steel engraving, signed by an engraver named Kilburn, records no date, so the print's exact origin is unclear. Steel engravings like this one were widely reproduced in 19th-century books and biographical collections.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : steel engraving. |
| Notes | Steel engraving by Kilburn. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,284 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147016 |
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