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Bust-length portrait of Franklin Pierce. Pierce is depicted with wavy, short dark hair and dark eyes and is wearing a dark coat, vest and a scarf with a white shirt. Mounted in a 1 1/2 in. wooden frame.
portraits
prints (visual works)
engraving (printing process)
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presidencies
Picture
Portrait
Unidentified Paper
Stipple Engraved
Presidency
Portrait
Printed beneath print: ""Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a Daguerrotype./ Printed by J.C. Buttre./ Published by J.C. Buttre, 61 Fulton Street, N.Y./ For sale by Dewitt & Davenport, Tribune Buildings. Entered according...in the year 1852 by J.C. Buttre in the Clerk's office...for the Southern District of New York.""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Franklin Pierce
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893 (Maker)
New York, NY, USA
13 x 10.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.407
New York state (United States)
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