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Creator(s)	Tappan & Bradford.
Contributor(s)	Allen, Stephen M. (Stephen Merrill), 1819-1894. Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891, photographer. Brigham & Co., publisher. Tappan & Bradford, publisher.
Title	Daniel Webster. At Home.
Link to library catalog record	http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=419901
Date	c.1852.
Publisher	Boston : Copyrighted by Brigham & Co. ; Tappan & Bradford.
Physical Description	1 print on china paper laid on mount : lithograph, b&w ; oval image 42 x 33.5 cm., mount 54 x 44 cm.
Summary	Half-length profile portrait of Webster seated in a chair facing left. Behind him on the left is a table with books and a bust of Washington. Print from a daguerreotype by John Adams Whipple for Stephen M. Allen, Esq., the last daguerreotype taken of Webster. Facsimile of Webster's signature below the image above the words "AT HOME." Oval image surrounded by a double line border and a border of laurel leaves terminating in Webster's motto, "I still live" surmounted by a star. Print is laid on rectangular mount printed with gilt borders. Purchased March 1994. #1994.2.
Subject(s)	Washington, George, 1732-1799--Statues--Pictorial works. Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852--Portraits.
Genre terms	Lithographs--United States--1850-1860.
Location/Call number	Prints and Photographs Dept. (Appointment required) C 5.4 Web.d.1852
Source	446_32.tif
Rights	Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. May not be reproduced or quoted without written permission. For more information, see http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/46