Thirteen portraits of American legislators, patriots, and soldiers, who distinguished themselves in rendering their country independent ...

Thirteen portraits of American legislators, patriots, and soldiers, who distinguished themselves in rendering their country independent ...

London : Published by W. Richardson ..., [1783]

[14] leaves : chiefly ports. ; 29 cm. (fol.)

L2001F733 1783 MP

(OCoLC)45009696

Portraits of: George Washington, Baron Von Steuben, John Jay, Henry Laurens, Charles Thomson, Horatio Gates, Gouverneur Morris, Samuel Huntington, Silas Deane, William Henry Drayton, John Dickinson, Joseph Reed, and Benedict Arnold.
Du Simitière painted his portraits from life by the end of 1779 and first published them in Paris in 1781. British engraver Reading copied them from the French ed. (with the images reversed) in 1783.
For different renderings of the same figures, see Portraits des genéraux, ministres et magistrats qui se sont rendu célè bres dans la Révolution des Treize États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale, 1781. (call no. 757 D973 1781)

Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed.) D599
Sabin 21446
Hart, Charles H., Cat.of engraved portraits of Washington 76

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