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Title: Major General Zachary Taylor
Creator: Eaton, Amos Beebe, 1806-1877, artist
Hoffy, Alfred M., approximately 1790-, printer
Hoffy, Alfred M., approximately 1790-, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1847
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of a bust-length portrait of United States Major General Zachary Taylor in military uniform drawn by Captain Amos Beebe Eaton while in Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, during the Mexican-American War.
"Published May 1847, by A. Hoffy, 88 Walnut St. Philadelphia. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1847, by A. Hoffy in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."--text, bottom center margin. "By A. Hoffy, under the immediate superintendence & directions of the undersigned Officers, from an original sketch taken from life at Camargo by Captain Eaton, A.D.C. We the undersigned consider the above a good likeness..."text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 40.01 x 26.67 cm (15 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_001513
420246
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2251
Language: English
Subject: Mexican War, 1846-1848--Pictorial works
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850--Pictorial works
Lithographs--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
Other Military
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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