Samuel Adams Esq. One of the Delegates from the Province of Massachusetts-Bay to the General Continental Congress of North-America.

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• PUBLISHER: Published by J. Milliken , London.

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

  DATE: 1780.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 6 x 4 1/8 (152 x 106 mm) plus title and margins.

• DESCRIPTION: No artist or engraver noted. This portrait appeared in “An impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and her colonies, from its commencement to the end of the year 1779." Shows a seated Samuel Adams looking to his right at a map of Canada and holding a document titled, "Plan of the Reduction of Canada”. This is likely relating to General Montgomery and Benedict Arnold's 1775-76 plan to seize the province of Quebec.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Nicely framed in a receding black and sanded spandrel molding. Overall framed size 12 x 9.5 inches.

• CONDITION: Good condition.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits