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Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams,
Gilbert Stuart (After),
David Edwin (Ma ...
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams,
Gilbert Stuart (After),
David Edwin (Ma ...
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Gilbert Stuart (After), David Edwin (Maker), George Murray (Maker), 1825-1829, Ink on paper; stipple engraving
Status
Not on view
Date1825-1829
After (American, 1755 - 1828)
Maker (American, 1776 - 1832)
Maker (1766-1822)
Subject (American, 1732 - 1799)
Subject (American, 1735 - 1826)
Subject (American, 1758 - 1831)
Subject (American, 1751 - 1836)
Subject (American, 1743 - 1826)
Subject (American, 1767 - 1848)
Geography Made - United States
DimensionsOverall (H x W): 8 5/16 in. x 5 1/8 in. (21.11 cm x 13.02 cm) Other (Image H x W): 6 7/16 in. x 4 in. (16.35 cm x 10.16 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott, 1985
Object numberSC-39
DescriptionGroup of oval portraits of the first six presidents. George Washington is at the top, and below are John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, and John Quincy Adams. Behind the portraits is a podium with draped ribbons and flowers carved into it, on top of which is a stack of books, an open book, quill and inkwell and a snake bearing its fangs.

Hart 598a
Published ReferencesCharles Henry Hart and Samuel Arlent Edwards, Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits of Washington (New York: Grolier Club of the City of New York, 1904), 252.

Charles R. Hildeburn, A Contribution to a Catalogue of the Engraved Works of David Edwin (Philadelphia, PA: [Hist. Soc. of Pennsylvania], 1894), 23-24.
MarkingsPrinted below image in cursive script: "Washington/Adams Madison Jefferson/Monroe Adams".
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