John Adams: Tallis 1850

Title: John Adams Author: John Tallis Date: 1850 Medium: Engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning and foxing Inches: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 [Image] Centimeters: 15.88 x 23.5 [Image] Product ID: 3110016 Portrait of John Adams, second President of the United States. Features an ornate border with an inset scene titled M. Talleyrand Receiving the American Envoys. 1797 (referencing an American diplomatic mission to France resulting in the XYZ Affair). John Tallis was an English cartographic publisher born in the United Kingdom in 1817. His firm, John Tallis & Company, was known for publishing maps and atlases among other works on paper in the mid eighteenth century.