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

Published ReferencesFrederick 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.

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.