The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye: Portraits for the People, 1800-1809

ISBN-13: 9780813908212 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 185 str.

Noblee Cunningham

Opis

An important contribution to iconographic studies of the presidency, this book employs an innovative approach. Sixty engravings, medals, and silhouettes illustrate the images of Thomas Jefferson that were available to the common man. Without television, photography, or coins that pictured the head of state, the majority of Americans in Jefferson's day knew his likeness mainly from engraved prints, many of questionable artistic merit.