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[Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst, 1717-1797, head and shoulders portrait, facing right.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst, 1717-1797, head and shoulders portrait, facing right.] — antique engraving
[Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst, 1717-1797, head and shoulders portrait, facing right.]. Antique engraving 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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[Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst, 1717-1797, head and shoulders portrait, facing right.] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Jeffrey Amherst, Baron Amherst, 1717-1797, head and shoulders portrait, facing right.]

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Jeffrey Amherst, later Baron Amherst, was a British army officer whose campaigns in North America helped drive France out of Canada during the Seven Years' War. This engraved head-and-shoulders portrait shows him facing right, a format typical of printed likenesses of prominent military men that circulated widely in the eighteenth century. The caption card records no date, so the print's exact year of publication is unknown, but its subject's career places it in the decades around the war. Amherst later served as commander in chief of British forces in North America, a post that gave his name a lasting place in the history of the period.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,096 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133400

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