Zachary Taylor (from Historia de los Estados-Unidor)

Engraver Thomas William Hunt British
Photographer After Mathew B. Brady American, born Ireland
Sitter Zachary Taylor American
ca. 1870
Not on view

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  • Title: Zachary Taylor (from Historia de los Estados-Unidor)
  • Engraver: Thomas William Hunt (British, active 1850–80)
  • Photographer: After Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)
  • Sitter: Zachary Taylor (American, Montebello, Virginia 1784–1850 Washington, D.C.)
  • Date: ca. 1870
  • Medium: Engraving after a daguerreotype
  • Dimensions: sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 1/16 in. (31.4 x 23 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
  • Object Number: 83.2.703
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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