Thomas Jefferson – Historic 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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Step back in time with Thomas Jefferson, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This portrait of Thomas Jefferson is a detail from a larger engraving of the Declaration of Independence, so he appears as one of the figures tied to the document he drafted. The record credits James Barton Longacre with the engraving after a painting by Bass Otis, and lists John Binns as publisher, with a date of 1818. By then Jefferson was in his mid-seventies and retired at Monticello, though his reputation as the Declaration's author had grown into a national symbol. The record comes from an older caption card and has not been fully verified, so the attributions are worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1818 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by J.B. Longacre after Otis. Published by Binns. Detail from engraving of Decl. of Independence. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 900 × 1,267 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106082 |
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