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To John Adams from Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst & Nicolaas Hubbard, 11 October 1790

From Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst and Nicolaas Hubbard

Amsterdam 11. October 1790.

We beg leave to introduce to your Excellency’s acquaintance, the Bearer Mr. Joseph Ceracchi Native of Rome & an eminent Sculptor, requesting your Excellency to render him every Service and civility in your Power, under our assurance of his being well worthy of them, and that your Excellency will thereby particularly oblige those who on similar & all other occasions are with great regard & respect.1 / Your Excellency’s. / Most obidt. & humble Servants

N & J. Van Staphorst & Hubbard

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “His Excelly. John Adams Esqr. Vice President of the / United States.—”

1. Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi (1751–1801) arrived in Philadelphia by March 1791. He created terra-cotta or marble busts and medallions of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, among others. AA likely donated Ceracchi’s medallion of JA to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1794, but both the medallion and the bust have since been lost (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963–. description ends , 10:284; Oliver, Portraits of JA and AA description begins Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John and Abigail Adams, Cambridge, 1967. description ends , p. 211–213; Oxford Art Online).

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    To John Adams from Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst & Nicolaas Hubbard, 11 October 1790
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    Staphorst, Nicolaas & Jacob van (business)
    Hubbard, Nicolaas
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    Adams, John
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    11 October 1790

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    “To John Adams from Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst & Nicolaas Hubbard, 11 October 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-20-02-0251. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 20, June 1789–February 1791, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, p. 422.]