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[William Whipple, 1730-1785, bust portrait, profile] – Antique Photo Print

[William Whipple, 1730-1785, bust portrait, profile] — historic print
[William Whipple, 1730-1785, bust portrait, profile]. Historic print 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 historic print of [William Whipple, 1730-1785, bust portrait, profile]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[William Whipple, 1730-1785, bust portrait, profile]

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William Whipple (1730-1785) was a New Hampshire merchant who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from that colony, and this print shows him in bust profile, turned to the side in the manner of many engraved portraits of the late eighteenth century. Profile likenesses of this kind were often copied from painted originals or drawn from life and then reproduced in quantity, so they circulated widely among readers who wanted to recognize the men behind the Revolution. The caption card gives no date, so the print's exact production period is uncertain, but its subject places it in the decades after 1776, when Whipple's name was becoming part of the national founding story.

Medium1 print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,178 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119049

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