Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

218 c   (PRESIDENTS.) Maurin, Nicholas-Eustache; after Gilbert Stuart. James Madison, Fourth President of the United States. Lithograph, 15 1 / 2 x 12 inches; laid down on wood, full vertical split repaired on verso, toned. [Boston: Pendleton’s Lithography, 1828] [500/750] One of the five presidential portraits from William Doggett’s American Kings series. Doggett commissioned portraits of the first five presidents by Gilbert Stuart, then hired the Pendletons (America’s pioneering lithographers) to reproduce them.The Pendletons outsourced the job to a French lithographer, who shipped the completed stones back to Boston.The Gilbert Stuart portraits have long since been lost in a fire. 217 c   (PRESIDENTS—1800 CAMPAIGN.) Pierson, Isaac. Letter passing on news reports from the Washington balloting. Autograph Letter Signed to his brother Jeremiah Halsey Pierson of the RamapoWorks [Rockland County, NY]. One page, 9 3 / 4 x 7 3 / 4 inches, with address panel and stamped New York postmark on verso; small seal tear in lower margin. New York, 19 February 1801 [1,000/1,500] The Piersons operated the important Ramapo Iron Works northwest of the city. This letter mixes business with politics, as Isaac reports on the latest news on the hung presidential election: “Nothing new has transpired since you left town, no president yet. The last acct from Washington says they have balloted 31 times, the result of each the same. This day’s mail is not in at 2 o’clock.” He later adds, “3 o’clock, the mail is in, no president.” Interspersed with these anxious observations are comments on their business: “Have you sent up a petition respecting the road to the landing? . . . Taking in 9 tons of Pennsyl. iron which will be sent the first opty.” 218