Alexander Hamilton
William Satchwell Leney after Giuseppe Ceracchi
Based on one of Ceracchi's busts of Hamilton (1791-94), perhaps the one exhibited at the Academy regularly between 1816 and 1821. More likely, Leney worked from one of the marble copies of the bust by John Dixey, who gave a marble version (of 1798) to the Academy in 1814. Dixey's copy appeared in the annual exhibition that year, just before the appearance of Leney's print in Joseph Delaplaine's "Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans," vol. 1, part 1 (1815-16).
Date of Birth
(1769-1831)/(1751-1802)
Date
ca. 1815
Medium
Stipple engraving on cream wove paper
Dimensions
5 1/4 x 4 3/16 in. (13.335 x 10.63625 cm.)
Accession #
1876.9.342
Credit Line
John S. Phillips Collection
Copyright
No known copyright restrictions
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