Distinguished Americans, at a Meeting of the New York Historical Society.

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• ARTIST: J. Gollman

• PUBLISHER: W. Pate. New York.

• MEDIUM: Mezzotint and line engraving,

  DATE: 1854

• EDITION SIZE: 21 11/16 x 30 3/16" (55 x 76.7 cm) plus title and margins

• DESCRIPTION: Engraved by T. Doney. Forty-nine portraits of American statesmen, journalists, orators and even a few presidents. Many of them were instrumental in the Compromise of 1850, an attempt, which ultimately failed, to pacify the tensions that were escalating between the northern and the southern states.

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• CONDITION: Good condition.

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