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Mrs. Adams / from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. – Historic Photograph Print

Mrs. Adams / from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart., [between 1830 and 1860(?)] — antique engraving
Mrs. Adams / from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart., [between 1830 and 1860(?)]. 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 Mrs. Adams / from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart.. 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. Adams / from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart.

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Here the sitter is Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and the second First Lady, shown in an engraving made from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Stuart painted her in the early 1800s, and the print was made decades later, probably between 1830 and 1860, so the image reflects how an earlier likeness was reproduced for a new audience. Abigail Adams is remembered for her letters urging her husband to "remember the ladies" during the drafting of the nation's laws, and this engraving helped keep her face in circulation long after her death in 1818. The print is part of the Library of Congress's Briggs Collection and was included in the "Creating the United States" exhibition.

Created / published[between 1830 and 1860(?)]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreD.C.
NotesBriggs Collection. Exhibited in: Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress
SubjectsAdams, Abigail,--1744-1818.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,156 × 1,446 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219393

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