Pencil-Signed Wm. Sharp Lithograph Courtroom Sketch of Chief Justice John Jay

As shown. See all photos. Found among my late mother’s belongings. Limited blemishes like minor creases.

He drew from photo or otherwise obv.

11.25” x 14.5”

wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay

“John Jay (Dec 1745–May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, diplomat, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served 1789–1795 as the first chief justice of the U.S. and 1795–1801 as the second governor of New York. Jay directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788.”

kiechelart.com/artist/william-sharp

William Sharp (1900–1961)

“His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror at the trial of Bruno R. Hauptmann for the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. As a staff artist at Esquire, where he continued to produce political cartoons, Sharp also illustrated stories by Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Mann.”