The Honble. John Hancock. of Boston in New-England; President of the American Congress. Done from an original picture painted

by Littleford by John Hancock, Johann Martin Will, C. Shepherd, portrait

$5,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare image showing Hancock standing at a writing table, holding a letter addressed to Israel Putnam. As president of the Continental Congress in 1775, Hancock was newsworthy in both London and the colonies, and he was a tailor-made subject for the print publishers. Some entrepreneurs, like Shepherd in his anxiety to get the first prints on the street, were willing to supplement truth with a generous portion of fiction ... On 25 October 1775 Shepherd published this

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