Roger Sherman [engraving]

Roger Sherman [engraving]

New York Johnson, Fry & Co. c.1861

1 print ; on sheet 28 x 20 cm.

P&E L2003D316m

Full-figure, standing, facing forward, head slightly to the left. His left hand is in his waistcoat pocket and his right hand rests on a small draped table containing his hat and a quill pen. A small piece of the paper has fallen to the floor next to the leg of the table. In the back, to the right, is a chair with a book on it. Another book is leaning against the wall in the lower right. Rectangle. The title is a facsimilie signature.
This is an illustration from Duyckinck's, National portrait gallery of eminant Americans, Vol. I, page 335.
Roger Sherman was a member of the Continental Congress from the state of Connecticut.

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