Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were published in nineteen of the twenty-three colonial newspapers, and his reasoned case against British taxation made him the first of America's celebrated patriots. The most cautious of men (he would hold back from signing the Declaration of Independence), Dickinson was no rabble-rouser, saying "the cause of liberty is a cause of too much dignity to be sullied by turbulence and tumult."
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Attribution
- Paul Revere, 1 Jan 1735 - 10 May 1818
- Copy after
- Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827
- Publisher
- Nathaniel Ames
- Sitter
- John Dickinson, 8 Nov 1732 - 14 Feb 1808
- Date
- 1771
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Medium
- Relief cut on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 9.4 × 7.8 cm (3 11/16 × 3 1/16")
- Book open: 17.5 × 21 cm (6 7/8 × 8 1/4")
- Book closed: 17.5 × 11 cm (6 7/8 × 4 5/16")
- Type
