John Adams: Second President of the United States

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Publisher Nathaniel Currier (American, 1813 – 1888)

Datebefore 1856

MediumHand-colored lithograph

DimensionsComposition: 11 3/8 × 9 in. (28.9 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 in. (35.2 × 25.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891

Object number1959.45

Not on view

DescriptionPortrait of John Adams, seated with books.

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1988
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "America on the Move," January 9 - February 21, 1988 (no cat.);

1963
Utica, NY (Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Auditorium Gallery). January 13 - February 10, 1963.

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams.

Published References Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 3251

CURRIER AND IVES: A CATALOG RAISONNE / Compiled by Gale Research Company: with an Introduction by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1984. Vol. 1, p. 365, no. 3512.

Inscribed "JOHN ADAMS. / Second President of the United States / LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER, 33 SPRUCE ST. NEW YORK." at lower center in typeset in black ink; "85" at lower left in pencil; "74" on verso at lower left in pencil.