Adams Papers

From Giuseppe Ceracchi to John Adams, 25 November 1794

From Giuseppe Ceracchi

Home Tuesday Morning 25 Novber. 94

Mr Ceracchi, respectfull compliments to the Wise President, and take the Liberty to beg him to present the annexed Medal to Mrs: Adam, he hopes that this Respectable Lady in honor him with her acceptance, will tink it as a very small degree of the high estime that he intertones for the subjet reppresented in the Medal, as well as for his family1

RC (Adams Papers); endorsed: “Ansd Decr. 2. 1794.”

1. JA described this artwork of himself by the Italian sculptor, now lost, as “a medallion in marble in an elegant gilded frame” and “as brittle as it is elegant” (vol. 20:422; Oliver, Portraits of JA and AA description begins Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John and Abigail Adams, Cambridge, 1967. description ends , p. 212; 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 , 10:321).

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    From Giuseppe Ceracchi to John Adams, 25 November 1794
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    Ceracchi, Giuseppe
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    Adams, John
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    25 November 1794

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    “From Giuseppe Ceracchi to John Adams, 25 November 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0246. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, p. 338.]

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