PEN AND INK BUST PORTRAIT OF DAVID RAMSAY

by David Ramsay

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

5 x 7 inches. Discolored paper, with ragged edges and glue adhesion at margins, still good. Item #354305 A pen and ink portrait of the noted physician and delegate to the Continental Congress, David Ramsay, attributed on the verso to John Trumbull, but most likely done by an anonymous other. The bust portrait is similar to the Ramsay portrait that appears in APPLETON'S..., and was probably done for a similar work or a late 19th-century history

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