Portrait of John Hancock. This item is unavailable.Portrait of John Hancock

Portrait of John Hancock. Born 23 January 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States of America. Died 8 October 1793 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. Wood engraving after John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), c. 1880. Good condition. Rather short margins. Some minor, faint soiling in the upper margin. Verso: English text. Mounted onto a slightly later album leaf. Dimensions: 100 x 76 mm. John Hancock was Politician, Statesman, Merchant, Governor of Massachusetts, President of the Continental Congress, 1st President of Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Prominent Patriot of the American Revolution, and Remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence. c. 1880.