File:Governor Samuel Adams.jpg
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Artist |
mezzotint by Graham, based on a lost portrait by Major John Johnston |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
Description |
English: Portrait of Samuel Adams, painted by Major John Johnston in 1795 while Adams was Governor of Massachusetts. The original was destroyed by fire within a few years; this copy, a folio mezzotint, was engraved in 1797 by someone named Graham. (All information from The life and public services of Samuel Adams, by William Vincent Wells, volume 3, p. 334) |
Date | 1797, based on 1795 originial |
Source/Photographer | The life and public services of Samuel Adams, by William Vincent Wells, volume 3 (1865) |
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