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[John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850, bust portrait, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850, bust portrait, facing right] — antique engraving
[John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850, bust 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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[John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850, bust portrait, facing right]

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John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina statesman, appears here in a bust-length engraving shown in profile, turned to the right, a format that engravers favored for printed likenesses of public men in the nineteenth century. Calhoun served as a U.S. representative and senator, as vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, and as secretary of state under John Tyler, and he became one of the most forceful advocates of states' rights and slavery's defense before his death in 1850. The record does not give a date or engraver for this particular print, so its exact origin is uncertain, but its profile pose is typical of the portraits circulated during his long public career.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,032 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127531

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