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Portrait of John Hancock [drawing].

Accession number
PML 78499.1
Creator
Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François, 1738-1826.
Published
1781?
Credit line
Purchase; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1985.
Notes
Original drawing by Lebarbier for an engraved portrait of John Hancock issued as an illustration in volume 1 of Hilliard d'Auberteuill's Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Américains (Brussels, 1781).
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in brown ink at bottom left: Le Barbier l'ainé pinxit.
Summary
Head and shoulders portrait of John Hancock, facing 3/4 to the left, within an oval frame and illustrated border.
Classification
Department