Thomas Jefferson, Head-and-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Right – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Thomas Jefferson, Head-and-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Right comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Thomas Jefferson, Head-and-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Right
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Here the sitter is Thomas Jefferson, shown in a head-and-shoulders view turned to the right, a pose that was common in the engraved likenesses circulated during his presidency. The record places the print around 1805, the years of his first term in the White House, when demand for images of the head of government was rising among a growing American readership. Engravings like this one carried a president's face into newspapers, books and parlors in a period before photography, so they served as much as a public statement of authority as a portrait. Its Library of Congress holding in the Prints and Photographs Division makes it a useful document of how the nation pictured its leaders in the early republic.
| Created / published | c. 1805 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, engraving |
| Notes | Washington, D.C |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,467 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219012 |
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