Papers of John Adams, volume 21
ovber.94
Mr Ceracchi, respectfull
compliments to the Wise President, and take the Liberty to beg him to
present the annexed Medal to Mrs: Adam, he hopes
that this Respectable Lady in honor him with her acceptance, will tink it as
a very small degree of the high estime that he intertones for the subjet
reppresented in the Medal, as well as for his family1
RC (Adams Papers); endorsed: “Ansd
Decr. 2. 1794.”
JA described this artwork of himself by
the Italian sculptor, now lost, as “a medallion in marble in an elegant
gilded frame” and “as brittle as it is elegant” (vol. 20:422; Oliver, Portraits of JA
and AA
, p. 212;
AFC
, 10:321).