Engraving
- Title:
- H. Clay
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.0242
- Creator:
- Chappel, Alonzo (1828-1887); Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers
- Place of Origin:
- New York City, NY
- Date:
- 1861
- Description:
- Engraving. Portrait of Henry Clay (1777-1852). Painted by Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887), 1862. Engraved by Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers. From Evert A. Duyckinck, National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc... Vol. II. (New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1862), facing page 144. Steel engraving, printed on paper. Full-length portrait of older man with white hair, white collar, black bow-tie, black coat, sitting in chair facing right with head turned forward; books and papers on table behind, carpeted floor and bust and curtain in background. "Painted by / Alonzo Chappel"; "H. Clay" facsimile of signature; "Likeness from a Portrait in the possession of his family / Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers, New York / Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1861 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the clerks office of the district court of the southern district of New York." printed beneath portrait. "N H Hist. Soc." written on back in pencil.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.8 W-8.1 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Clay, Henry, Senators (U.S.), Congressmen (U.S.), Statesmen
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