Engraved portrait of Scotch-Irish American statesman and military surgeon James McHenry (1753-1816). McHenry was a Continental Congress delegate from Maryland and one of the signers of the United States Constitution. He served as United States Secretary of War (1796-1800) under Presidents George Washington and John Adams. Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, was named for him.
1803
Engraver: Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin
MS 718
3.5 x 4.25 inches
1 print
10163
Collected by Elisabeth L. Clark and Bertha Lee Jenkins Miller and presented to the Maryland Historical Society by Elisabeth L. Clark, 1947
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