Description:
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. A separately issued print by “America’s printmakers.” From 1834 to 1907 the firm of Nathaniel Currier and (after 1856) Currier & Ives provided for the American people a wide and varied gallery of prints for the new mass market of middle class society. The firm was the most successful American popular printmaker, issuing over 8,000 different prints. Their success was the result of their good business sense and their accurate instincts of what the American public wanted. Their images have become classics, capturing the life and times of nineteenth-century America. One of the more successful of their series were the portraits of the U.S. Presidents which they began issuing in the 1840s. Framed print portrait of William Henry Harrison, Harrison is seated at a desk with a quill pen in one hand and a sword in the other, his has a black suit and a white shirt, there is a green swag curtain with yellow tassel in the background, Printed at the bottom, "WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Ninth President of the United States./ Lith & Pub by N. Currier 2 Spruce St. & 169 Broadway N.Y." Marked on the reverse of the frame in pencil, "Whitcomb"
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