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circa 1850

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Title: Engraving of Joseph Hopkinson.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is typed biographical note. Based on the ca. 1810 portrait by Thomas Sully.

GLC02453.55

circa 1880

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Title: Engraving of Charles Fenno Hoffman.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to bottom right. Engraved from a portrait by Henry Inman.

GLC02453.63

circa 1880

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Title: Engraving of John Lothrop Motley.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below image reads, "On steel by John Sartain Phila. after Photograph from life"

GLC02453.66

26 July 1860

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Engraving

Title: Commencement Day, Yale College

One engraving entitled "Commencement Day, Yale College" dated July 26th 1860. Depicts Rev. Jerimiah Day, former president of Yale, Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, President of Yale, and Prof. Benjamin Sullivan, professor of science at Yale. Engraved by John Sartain.

GLC08878.0098

1861-1877

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Engraving

Title: [Portraits of Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay]

One untitled engraving circa 1861-1877. Portraits of Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. Engraved by John Sartain.

GLC08878.0100