[Meriwether Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Antique Photo Print
![[Meriwether Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], [Washington, D.C. : ca. 1805] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/df/df679993c227-L.webp)
(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 [Meriwether Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Meriwether Lewis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]
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Lewis appears here in profile, facing right, in a small engraving made in Washington, D.C., around 1805. The outline was traced with a mechanical device, the physionotrace, and engraved on copper by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, who made many profile likenesses of prominent Americans in the early republic. Lewis had recently led the Corps of Discovery with William Clark, and he later governed the Louisiana Territory. He died in 1809 on the Natchez Trace, the old road that this landmark recalls.
| Created / published | [Washington, D.C. : ca. 1805] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1800-1810.Engravings 1800-1810. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 420. Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, 1994, no. 506. |
| Subjects | Lewis, Meriwether,--1774-1809. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 911 × 1,146 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217011 |
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