Publication Date: 1880
Seller: The Online Portrait Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands
No Binding. Condition: Good. Portrait of John Jay. Born 12 December 1745 in New York City, New York, United States of America. Died 17 May 1829 in Bedford, New York, United States of America. Wood engraving after Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), c. 1880. Good condition. Short margins. Verso: English text. Mounted onto a slightly later album leaf. Dimensions: 88 x 72 mm. John Jay was Statesman, Patriot, Diplomat, Abolitionist, Founding Father, United States Secretary of State, Negotiator, Governor of New York, 1st Chief Justice of the United States, United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, United States Minister to Spain, 6th President of the Continental Congress, Delegate from New York to the Second Continental Congress, Delegate from New York to the First Continental Congress, and Signatory of the Treaty of Paris. c. 1880. Print.