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[Thomas Jefferson, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile] – Vintage Wall Art

[Thomas Jefferson, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile], [Washington, D.C. : 1804] — antique engraving
[Thomas Jefferson, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile], [Washington, D.C. : 1804]. 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, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This Jefferson is a right-profile engraving, not a painted or full-face portrait, which sets it apart from most likenesses of the president. Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a French émigré working in America, made profiles like this one with a physionotrace, a device that traced the sitter's outline before the engraving was made. Produced in Washington in 1804, while Jefferson was serving his first term as president, the print reflects the Neoclassical taste for crisp profile likenesses in the early Republic.

Created / published[Washington, D.C. : 1804]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreD.C.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Engraved on plate: TH: Jefferson ; St. Memin delt. & sct. Dexter, 10 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, 1994, no. 446. Exhibited in: Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress
SubjectsJefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,122 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131050

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