John Quincy Adams. Engraving by J. Andrews, 1848, after G.P.A. Healy.
- Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894.
- Date:
- [1848]
- Reference:
- 11587i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Oliver (op. cit. fig. 108, p. 255) mentions a portrait of Adams by Healy dated 10 December 1845 in the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, Paris. The database Joconde (accessed 13 September 2010) lists a version by Healy commissioned by King Louis-Philippe for the Musée historique de Versailles in 1846 and painted in 1847 (Blérancourt, Musée national de la coopération franco-américaine). Healy also painted other versions listed by Oliver, but later than 1848, when this version is dated
Publication/Creation
Boston : Geo. K. Snow, [1848] ([Boston?] : R. Andrews, print.)
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 40.4 x 33.8 cm
Lettering
John Quincy Adams. Engraved from a picture by G.P.A. Healy by J. Andrews. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848 by G.P.A. Healy, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Massachusetts
References note
Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John Quincy Adams and his wife, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970
Reference
Wellcome Collection 11587i
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