Engraving
- Title:
- Levi Woodbury.
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.1215
- Creator:
- Longacre, James Barton (1794-1869)
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1842
- Description:
- Engraving. Portrait of Levi Woodbury (1789-1851). Drawn and engraved by James B. Longacre (1794-1869). 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), 384. Steel engraving, printed on paper. Bust-length portrait of middle-aged man, partially bald, wearing white collar, high-collared black jackey; holding book with partially-viewed illustration of ship with three masts, in left hand, looking left; sitting in partially-viewed chair; window in background offers partially view of ship with three masts, drapes make up rest of background. "Drawn from life and Engraved by J.B. Longacre. / Levi Woodbury" / "Levi Woodbury" facsimile of signature, printed beneath portrait. "Purchased April, 1980 / from Colburn Tegg, / Hollis, N.Y. $3.50" written in pencil in upper-right corner of back of paper.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.2 W-7.7 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Politics government, Politicians
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