"John Quincy Adams portrait" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Aug 2017 4:08 p.m. PST |
"A daguerreotype portrait of John Quincy Adams taken in March of 1843 by Philip Haas, the earliest surviving original photographic image of a US president, has been rediscovered after more than a century and a half of languishing in obscurity. It is going up for auction at Sotheby's Photographs sale on October 5th in New York. This silver plate portrait has been in the family of Horace Everett, a congressman from Vermont who served in the House of Representatives from 1829 to 1843, since Adams gifted it to him in 1843, but the seller, a descendant who wishes to remain unnamed, thought it was a portrait of Horace Everett and had no idea that an object of national significance was stashed amidst his attic clutter…."
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| KSmyth | 30 Aug 2017 9:41 p.m. PST |
This is a pretty famous portrait. Should go for a pretty penny. |
| Tango01 | 31 Aug 2017 10:25 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 07 May 2021 4:32 p.m. PST |
This book looks interesting…
John Quincy Adams: American tourist in Paris, 1815
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Did anyone read it?
If the answer is yes… comments please?
Thanks in advance
Armand |
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finally dips his toe into the world of Aeronef.
