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UNKNOWN
Relief cut
, 1789

 

Boglewood: 3030
Wick:  24


 

Source image:
No identified source.


 

Text:
Printed for E. Russell, next Liberty-Pole: Where may be had / cheap to Travelling-traders, &c the Bloody Register, No. 4.

 

Version I:  As shown.  Collection:  American Antiquarian Society.

Published in:  (i) Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, or, Federal Calendar, for 1790 ([Boston]: Ezekiel Russell, [1789]), and (ii) Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, or, Federal Calendar, for 1790 ([Boston]: Ezekiel Russell, 3rd ed., [1789])

Notes:  The figures are not identified, but are presumed to be George Washington and John Adams, who had just been elected President and Vice President.  It has been suggested that the images were previously used to represent Washington and General Horatio Gates, but that usage has not been confirmed.

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