Description:
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. 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 Andrew Jackson, Jackson is seated behind a desk, his hand rests and points to some papers, in his other hand is a sword, there are books and a quill pen and inkwell on the desk, Jackson is dressed in a black suit with a whiet shirt, there is a green drapery with gold tassel in the background, the print reads: "ANDREW JACKSON/ Seventh President of the United States./ Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier 2 Spruce St N.Y." Inscribed in pencil on the back of the period frame, "Whitcomb"
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