Edward Everett, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Design drawing for engraving by J.C. Buttre shows three scenes: Harvard College, Mount Vernon, and the Grave of George Washington, as well as bust of Washington surrounding a stipple engraving head-and-shoulders portrait of Edward Everett (1794-1865), probably when he ran for vice-president under the banner of the Constitutional Union party on the ticket with John Bell in 1860. Everett had been president of Harvard, 1846-1849. A famous orator, Everett raised more than $100,000 to purchase Washington's home of Mount Vernon by giving lectures across the United States. In 1860 he wrote the entry on Washington for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Title on verso.
Purchase; (DLC/PP-1984:321.1).