ARTIST: Samuel Osgood
PUBLISHER: London. Published by Ackermann & Co. 1 Jany. 1839.
MEDIUM: Mezzotint & line engraving,
DATE: 1839.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 8 5/8 x 7 1/8" ?(22 x 18.1 cm) plus wide margins.
DESCRIPTION: S.S. Osgood Pinxt. H. S. Sadd, Sculpt. Henry Clay (1777-1852) Lawyer, politician and skilled orator. Born in Virginia, he moved to Kentucky at the age of 20 and settled in Lexington. There he practiced law with great success. In 1806, after serving in the Kentucky legislature, he was elected to fill the unexpired term of a U.S. senator who had resigned. Clay took the seat, although he was four months younger than the constitutional age requirement of 30. In 1811 Clay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he eventually served as Speaker of the House. In all, Clay would come to serve multiple terms in the U.S. House (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25) and Senate (1806–07, 1810–11, 1831–42, 1849–52). Over the course of his career, Clay's skills became renowned in Washington, D.C., earning him the nicknames The Great Compromiser and The Great Pacificator. His influence was so strong that he came to be admired by a young Abraham Lincoln, who referred to Clay as "my beau ideal of a statesman." A beautifully engraved portrait of a young Henry Clay.
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CONDITION: Very good condition.
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