James Fenimore Cooper [with facsimile signature].
Painted by J.W. Jarvis. Engraved by E. Scriven. [n.d., c.1835.] Stipple. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate (as issued) A half-length portrait of James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), in naval uniforum. The American author, best known for the romantic novel 'The Last of the Mohicans', went to sea in 1806, aged 17, on a merchant ship, before serving in the US navy 1808-10. The original portrait was painted in 1822 by his friend John Wesley Jarvis (c.1780-1839), a member of Cooper’s famous 'Bread and Cheese Club'. Described by Cooper's wife as her favourite portrait of her husband, it now resides in the Fenimore Art Museum.
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