Description:
James Monroe (1758-1831) was the fifth President of the United States, serving between 1817 and 1825. Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States and the last president from the Virginian dynasty and the Republican Generation. 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 James Monroe seated in a chair with blue upholstery, he sits at a desk with a red baize covering, he has papers, books, and an inkwell and quill on the desk; behind him is a large green drapery with gold tassel, inscribed at the bottom, "JAMES MONROE,/ Fifth President of the United States./ Lith & Pub by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St. N.Y." The reverse of the frame is inscribed in ink, "Sally E. Meyer/ J. K."
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