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HILLER, Joseph (1748-1814). The Hon. John Hancock Esq. President of the Continental Congress. [Boston: c.1775.]
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HILLER, Joseph (1748-1814). The Hon. John Hancock Esq. President of the Continental Congress. [Boston: c.1775.]
Hiller’s rare mezzotint after John Singleton Copley’s portrait of Hancock. Copley’s painting is now in the Massachusetts Historical Society. This print is in the second state, in which the caption adds his title, "President of the Continental Congress," and the artist's name (cf. Smithsonian GA. 24021). Stauffer 698.
Mezzotint (260 x 215mm), framed (some wear to edges, mounted, not examined out of frame). Provenance: Old Print Shop, New York, July 1990.
Hiller’s rare mezzotint after John Singleton Copley’s portrait of Hancock. Copley’s painting is now in the Massachusetts Historical Society. This print is in the second state, in which the caption adds his title, "President of the Continental Congress," and the artist's name (cf. Smithsonian GA. 24021). Stauffer 698.
Mezzotint (260 x 215mm), framed (some wear to edges, mounted, not examined out of frame). Provenance: Old Print Shop, New York, July 1990.
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