Name/Title

Engraving

Entry/Object ID

1988.777

Scope and Content

Tinted, full-length image of Clay shown seated with left arm hanging over back of chair, right hand in his lap. Clay is shown in long coat, high collar, and cravat. He is seated beside a pink draped table with books on in it and in the background a bust on a pedestal. In fine print below image, "Painted by -- Alonzo Chappel", with a facsimile signature "H. Clay" centered below that. Below signature, "Likeness from a Portrait in the possession of his family. / Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers, New York. / Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1861 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the clerk's office of the district court fr the southern district of New York."