File:Amos Doolittle - A New Display of the United States - 1799 (Adams).jpg

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"A New Display of the United States", 1799 engraving of coats of arms of the 16 states of the United States at that time (accompanied by population and congressional statistics) surrounding a portrait of John Adams.

  • Title: A new display of the United States
  • Creator(s): Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832.,
  • Date Created/Published: [New Ha]ven : Printed & sold wholesale by Amos Doolittle, August 14' 1799.
  • Medium: 1 print on laid paper: engraving ; sheet 56 x 42.5 cm.
  • Summary: A bust portrait of President John Adams, with garland and curtain, framed by the arms of sixteen states. Below each state's seal are inscribed its population and number of senators and representatives. At the top of the print is a spread-winged eagle, holding an arrow, an olive branch, and a banderole with the words "Millions for our Defence Not a Cent for Tribute." The print is one of several revised and updated versions of Doolittle's 1788-89 engraving "A Display of the United States of America," which has a bust portrait of George Washington, encircled by the seals of thirteen states in the form of circular links in an unbroken chain, symbolic of the federal union, and lacks the eagle and motto.
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-15716 (digital file from original item) LC-USZ62-1798 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Call Number: PGA - Doolittle--New display (C size) [P&P]
  • Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
  • Notes:
    • Trimmed to within platemark at bottom and sides.
    • Title from item.
    • Wick, pp. 35-37
    • Antiques, February 1922
    • Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1799-1.
    • Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 65.
    • Exhibited in: "Creating the U.S." Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2008.
  • Subjects:
    • Washington, George,--1732-1799.
    • Adams, John,--1735-1826.
  • Format:
    • Engravings--1790-1800.
    • Portrait prints--1790-1800.
  • Collections:
    • Cartoon Prints, American
    • Popular Graphic Arts
  • Bookmark This Record https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003656585/
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Amos Doolittle  (1754–1832)  wikidata:Q4747853
 
Amos Doolittle
Description American engraver and caricaturist
Date of birth/death 18 May 1754 Edit this at Wikidata 30 January 1832 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cheshire New Haven
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