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A new display of the United States,August 14,1799,President John Adams,garland

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.
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.
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.
Engravings--1790-1800.
Portrait prints--1790-1800.
Bookmark /2003656585/
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