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[Thomas Jefferson, Pres., U.S., head and shoulders, facing left, in oval] – Antique Print

[Thomas Jefferson, Pres., U.S., head and shoulders, facing left, in oval] — antique engraving
[Thomas Jefferson, Pres., U.S., head and shoulders, facing left, in oval]. Antique engraving from the Presidents 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 [Thomas Jefferson, Pres., U.S., head and shoulders, facing left, in oval]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Jefferson's third-president portrait in this print is a stipple engraving, a technique that builds tone from clusters of small dots rather than lines, which gives the face a softer, more painterly look than most engraved likenesses of the era. The record dates it to about 1801, the year Jefferson took office as the nation's third president, so the image was likely made to circulate as his fame was rising. Because the figure is shown head and shoulders in an oval frame, it follows the conventional format of early American portrait prints, which were widely sold and copied in books and newspapers. The stipple method was popular in the early 1800s because it could reproduce a painting's gradations of light with relatively fine detail.

Medium1 print : stipple engraving.
Notes1801?
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,343 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134361

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