Pedro Santana, 1801-1864 – Vintage Print
(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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This rare antique engraving captures Pedro Santana, 1801-1864 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pedro Santana, 1801-1864
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A cattle rancher from the eastern town of El Seibo, Pedro Santana became one of the most powerful military men in the young Dominican Republic, which had won independence from Haiti in 1844. He served as the republic's first president and held power again in the early 1850s, relying on his command of the army to shape national politics. This wood engraving appeared in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, a Boston illustrated weekly that brought portraits of public figures to American middle-class readers in the 1850s. The record is based on an old caption card and has not been fully verified, so the exact context of the printing is worth checking against the magazine itself.
| Created / published | 1854 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Gleason's Pict... 1854, v. 7, p. 149. Ref. copy may be in BIOG FILE. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,105 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108524 |
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