Engraving

Title:

Benjamin Pierce

Object Name:

Engraving

Object ID:

2010.501.0826

Creator:

Pratt, Henry Cheever (1803-1880); Smith, George Girdler (1795-1878)

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1842

Description:

Engraving. Portrait of Benjamin Pierce (1757-1839). Engraved by George G. Smith (1795-1878), after a portrait by Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880), 1842. Steel engraving, printed on paper. Bust-length portrait of late middle-aged man facing right, white hair combed back, slight jowls on side of mouth, dark coat with wide lapels and collar (edge of collar laps over the lapel), 3 buttons, light-colored vest with high notched collar, 3 buttons, light-colored stock and cravat. To his right and behind him is a portion of a rectangle which may be the back of a chair in which he is sitting. Dark gray background around him set in upright rectangle. The background is slightly lightened around the edge of his coat. Rectangle is slightly wider at top than bottom. Facsimile signature: "Benjamin Pierce". Underneath illustration at left: "Painted by H. C. Pratt." On right side of bottom edge of image: "EngD. by G. G. Smith." From George Barstow, The History of New Hampshire: From its Discovery in 1614, to the Passage of the Toleration Act, 1819. (Concord, New Hampshire: I. S. Boyd, 1842), 388. On back in pencil in center: "76870 / Gift of Purvis 1975."

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-10.15 W-6.35 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Pierce, Benjamin (1757-1839), Pratt, Henry Cheever (1803-1880), Smith, George Girdler (1795-1878)

Subjects:

Pierce, Benjamin, Politicians, Politics government