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[Samuel Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Samuel Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1870 and 1920](?) — historic photograph
[Samuel Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [between 1870 and 1920](?). Historic photograph 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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Step back in time with [Samuel Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Samuel Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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Here the sitter is Samuel Adams, the Boston politician who helped lead colonial opposition to British taxation and rule before the Revolution, shown from the shoulders up and turned to the right. The picture reproduces a painting by John Singleton Copley, the Boston-born artist known for his portraits of colonial merchants and officials. Copley's likeness of Adams became one of the most recognized images of the revolutionary leader, and this photographic copy, probably made between 1870 and 1920, helped carry that face to later readers. Adams died in 1803, so the image preserves an appearance recorded more than a century earlier.

Created / published[between 1870 and 1920](?)
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait paintings Reproductions.Photographic prints 1870-1920.
NotesReproduction of painting on wood by John S. Copley.
SubjectsAdams, Samuel,--1722-1803.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,272 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179136

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