The Jefferson Presidency Images
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Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1805.
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Descendents of Sally Hemings and, most probably, Thomas Jefferson gather at Monticello in 1999.
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John Marshall by William James Hubbard, 1834.
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The north wing of the new United States Capitol, by William Birch in 1800.
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Jefferson's embargo of 1807 was labeled a "terrapin policy"—one that would "shut up the nation in its own shell." In this cartoon, the embargo's repeal in 1809 is graphically celebrated.
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Jefferson's mountaintop home, Monticello, painted by Jane Pitford Braddick Peticolas, circa 1827.
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Maria Cosway, the young woman with whom Jefferson became infatuated. This engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a painting by Maria's husband, Richard Cosway, hangs in the parlor at Monticello.
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A cartoon by James Akins (circa 1804) portraying Jefferson as a "philosophic cock" courting a hen with a dark complexion and a slave's headdress.