Lot 146: CORNELIUS TIEBOUT (1773-1832)

Stipple engraving, c. 1800, published by A. Day, Philadelphia, on silk, with margins, a c. 6 inch tear at center left through the table, another small defect in the floor at lower left, glued to cardboard, with remnants of top mat adhering in some places in the out margins recto, silk discolored, with tack holes in the lower edge, framed This very rare early portrait of Thomas Jefferson is perhaps the only known impression printed on silk.