Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Mrs. John Adams (Abigail Smith).
Call Number
E North 32/GC024/Box 024/Normal/19th c./Artists Sa-Sh GA 2015.01234
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcvd66wc025
Publisher
New York : [s.n.], n.d. [1856?]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1856
Extent
1 item ; sheet 24.2 x 16.5 cm.
References
Published in Griswold, Rufus W. The republican court; or, American society in the days of Washington. New York: D. Appleton and company, 1856.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Stipple engravings
Depiction: 3/4-length portrait, left profile of Abigail Adams as young woman, wearing pearl necklace, seated in upholstered chair and holding flower, gazing right.
Signed in plate, below: "From an orginal picture by C. Schessele in possession // of the publishers".

Discovery Information

Subject
Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818—Portraits
Portraits, American—19th century
Presidents' spouses—United States—19th century—Portraits
Adams, John, 1735-1826—Family—Portraits
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a65db391-e7c8-48ad-9a96-8b95ddc930e9/manifest