Auction Date:2010 May 12 @ 10:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “J. Q. Adams,” 8 x 10, May 15, 1844. Letter to portrait artist Edward Dalton Marchant regarding copies of paintings of his father John Adams and George Washington. In full: “I have received your letter of the 9th inst. Together with the portraits of President Washington and of my father—copies from the originals, which you have made at my request, and which are altogether satisfactory. I had also received your previous letter informing me that the copies were completed, and in the pressure of business had delayed the acknowledgment of its reception.
Please to forward the originals carefully packed and directed to me, to the care of Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 57 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, with an accompanying note that the packet is to be kept for me until my return to the North. And have the goodness to inform me by the mail what I am indebted to you for the copies. Our Ladies are well, and reciprocate your kind remembrances.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, a couple small stains and unobtrusive fingerprints, and a very mild shade of toning.
The former president had borrowed artwork from the nephew of US Supreme Court Judge William Cushing and instructed Marchant, a Massachusetts-born artist, to reproduce the likenesses for his own collection—portraits that Adams here finds “altogether satisfactory.” Research has shown that the two oil-on-canvas pieces requested by Adams survived the 166 years since this letter was sent, and are now housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection in Washington, D.C., after having been donated by a descendent. Those original paintings, which Adams instructed to be “carefully packaged” and returned, obviously made their safe trip and today reside at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A unique “trail” pertaining to major works of art. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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