Engraving
- Title:
- Frank Pierce
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.0841
- Creator:
- Root, Marcus A. (1808-1888); Buttre, John Chester (1821-1893)
- Date:
- 1890
- Description:
- Engraving. Portrait of Franklin Pierce (1804-1869). Engraved by John Chester Buttre (1821-1893). Steel engraving printed on paper. Bust length portrait of a man with short, dark, wavy hair, white collar, cravat, black vest and black jacket facing straight ahead with a light gray background. "Engraved by J. C. Buttre from a Daguerreotype by Root", "FrankPierce" facsimile of signature, "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES." printed beneath the portrait. On the reverse printed in pencil at the bottom "probably from: / James A. Bugbee 'Memorials of the Massachusetts Society / at the Cincinnati', Boston: 1890. facing p. 395) . In the right bottom corner in script in pencil "1" in a circle followed by "Currier Ptg Co / Littleton N. H."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.5 W-6.4 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Pierce, Franklin
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