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Mrs. Martin Van Buren – Vintage Wall Art

Mrs. Martin Van Buren, 1871 — antique engraving
Mrs. Martin Van Buren, 1871. 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 Mrs. Martin Van Buren. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Mrs. Martin Van Buren

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Hannah Hoes Van Buren never lived in the White House, because she died in 1819, well before her husband Martin Van Buren was elected president in 1836. This 1871 engraving by J.C. Buttre therefore shows a woman who had been gone for more than half a century. It was published as an illustration in Laura C. Holloway's *Ladies of the White House*, a popular book of the period that profiled the wives and hostesses of past presidents. The record for this print comes from an older caption card and has not been verified, so the source of the likeness is worth reading with some caution. The engraving reflects the nineteenth-century habit of gathering portraits of notable women into illustrated volumes that honored the nation's first families.

Created / published1871
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesEngraving by J.C. Buttre. Illus. in: Laura C. Holloway, Ladies of the White House, 1871. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,081 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108015

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