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AMERICAN MEZZOTINT (REVOLUTION.) Okey, Samuel; engraver. Mr. Samuel Adams. Mezzotint, after a painting by J. Mitchell. Approximately 14x93/4
AMERICAN MEZZOTINT (REVOLUTION.) Okey, Samuel; engraver. Mr. Samuel Adams. Mezzotint, after a painting by J. Mitchell. Approximately 14x9 3/4 inches, wide margins. Newport: Reak & Okey, April 1775
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Notes: a very rare example of an american mezzotint portrait of a colonial leader from the revolutionary period. With the following poem engraved below the title, celebrating Adams's opposition to the Intolerable Acts: "When haughty North impress'd wth proud Disdain / Spurn'd at the Virtue, which rejects his Chain; / Heard with a Tyrant Soon our Rights implor'd / And when we su'd for Justice sent the Sword: / Lo! Adams rose in Warfare nobly try'd / His Country's Saviour, Father, Shield & Guide / Urg'd by her Wrongs he wag'd ye glorius Strife / Nor paus'd to waste a Coward Thought on Life."
In this portrait Adams is standing in front of a table with a paper in his hand, engraved with the words "Inhabitants from ye Town of Boston" -- probably referring to his famous Circular Letter. Stauffer, American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel 2370.
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