Description:
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams and in 1800 was elected the third President. 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 Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson sits behind a desk covered in red baize, his hands are clasped and his rests his hands on a pile of papers, behind him are several books and an inkwell, in the background is a blueish green swag curtain and a blue upholstered chair, printed at the bottom, "THOMAS JEFFERSON,/ Third President of the United States./ Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier 2 Spruce St. N.Y." Inscribed on the reverse of the frame in ink, " J.K. Sally E. Meyer. EEM"
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