JOHN JAY
Alonzo Chappel
John Jay
Steel engraving; hand colored, 1862
Image size 7 1/4 x 5 1/2" (180 x 135 mm).
Good condition. Black and white. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 47426
Price: $85.00 Publisher : Published by Johnson, Fry & Co., New York. John Jay, 1745-1829. The first chief justice of the Supreme Court, 1789-1795. Continental Congress, 1774-76, 1778-79, 1784, President, of the Congress, 1779. One of the negotiators of the peace treaty with Britain. "Let it be remembered that civil liberty consists, not in a right to every man to do just what he pleases, but it consists in an equal right to all citizens to have, enjoy, and do, in peace, security and without molestation, whatever the equal and constitutional laws of the country admit to be consistent with the public good." 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , Clergy
