Houdon 12" Bronze Thomas Jefferson Bust

Houdon 12" Bronze Thomas Jefferson BustJean Antoine Houdon, the leading portrait sculptor of his age, had an uncanny ability to infuse his sculptures with the personalities of their subjects. This bust is a superb likeness of Thomas Jefferson when he was minister to France. Jefferson apparently thought well of the sculpture because he acquired a copy that he brought back to America. Our adaptation is cast in high density composite resin. 12"H with bronze finish. Made in the U. S. A.

Publication date:  January 19

the half-Virginian half-French cuisine he developed

Print length: 336 pages

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Jefferson's unique vegetable garden now boasts the same medley of plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the early nineteenth century

This is how they will appear on the engraved pen holder

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and the vaulting ambition that propelled him into public life as a modern avatar of the Enlightenment who

information on the medical condition of some of Jefferson's slaves

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