Enclosure: Thomas Gimbrede’s Engraving of the First Four American Presidents, [30 January 1812]

Enclosure

Thomas Gimbrede’s Engraving of the First Four American Presidents

[30 Jan. 1812]

Engraving (ViCMRL).

On 3 Mar. 1812 Gimbrede sent copies of this engraving to James Madison from New York, stating that he “conceived that a print representing the four Presidents; would be very desirable and pleasing to the dispassionate and true Americans” and asking that Madison “forward two of them to the honourable Thos Jeffersson—ex-president of the United States” (RC in DLC: Madison Papers; printed in Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, John C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, 1962– : Congress. Ser., Pres. Ser., Retirement Ser., Sec. of State Ser. description ends , Pres. Ser., 4:225).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Enclosure: Thomas Gimbrede’s Engraving of the First Four American Presidents, [30 January 1812]
Author: Gimbrede, Thomas
Date: January–March 1812

Reference

Cite as: “Enclosure: Thomas Gimbrede’s Engraving of the First Four American Presidents, [30 January 1812],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-04-02-0432-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 540–541.]