The life of John Marshall
A 1916 Boston and New York biography of the American jurist John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge, illustrated with portrait plates of Marshall and his contemporaries for a general reading public. The four pictures shown are engraved or tinted head-and-shoulders portraits of men in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century dress: powdered hair, high white cravats, dark coats, and one gold-embroidered uniform. A designer could draw on their oval vignettes, sober tonal palettes, and formal three-quarter poses for period character studies.
