Brady, Mathew B. "President Taylor and His Cabinet"
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Brady, Mathew B. "President Taylor and His Cabinet"

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"President Taylor and His Cabinet." Photographs. New York: Mathew B. Brady, 1849. Printed by lithography. Sheet 15 1/4 x 23 3/4 laid onto a sheet 20 1/2 x 27 (overall dimensions. Five repaired tears on the heavier mounting sheet. Lithograph drawn on stone by D'Avignon & Hoffman. Printed by Nagel & Weingarten, New York. Some slight staining, but overall an interesting, effective impression.  At Mathew Brady's photography studios in New York and Washington separate portrait photographs were taken and then redrawn as a grouping to show President Zachary Taylor's cabinet left to right Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876), William Morris Meredith (1799-1873), William Ballard Preston (1805-1862, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), George Walker Crawford (1798-1872), Jacob Collamer (1791-1865), Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), and John Middleton Clayton (1796-1856). Francis D'Avignon (ca. 1814-?) and Abram Hoffman (fl. 1849-1860) used the photographs to draw the portraits on stone. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850

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