His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, c. 1794

Not on View

Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 33.34 × 23.5 cm (13 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.878

Artists / Makers

Joseph H. Seymour (artist) American, active 1797 - 1822

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Seymour, delin, sculp / His Excellency John Hancock Esqr: / late Governor, and Commander in Chief / of the / Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981