Jefferson and Hamilton (72 page)

“What Think Ye of Congress Now.” A 1790 cartoon expressing unhappiness with the deal made to move the capital and Congress to the Potomac. Congress would quit New York for Philadelphia that summer. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania.)

A mezzotint after a portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull. The painting was done in 1792, Hamilton’s third year as Secretary of the Treasury. He was thirty-seven years old at the time. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division.)

Edmond-Charles Edouard Genêt, the flawed French diplomat who arrived in Philadelphia in 1793 and in the briefest time angered both Hamilton and Jefferson. (
Harper’s Encyclopaedia of United States History
, vol. IV, 1905.)

“A Peep into the Antifederal Club.” The earliest known Federalist cartoon attacking Jefferson, it shows Republicans as dissolute and takes some swipes at the French Revolution. (Library Company of Philadelphia.)

The bust of Hamilton done by Giuseppe Ceracchi in 1793, the year of Genêt’s troubled embassy. The bust was Betsey Hamilton’s favorite of all the works of art on her husband. (New-York Historical Society.)

John Adams
, by Mather Brown. The painting was completed in 1788 while Adams was the U.S. minister to the Court of St. James. He was fifty-three years old. (Boston Athenaeum/The Bridgeman Art Library.)

“Cinque-tetes, or the Paris Monster.” A 1797 cartoon satirizing France’s misguided actions in the XYZ Affair. (Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris/Archives Charmet/The Bridgeman Art Library.)

“The Providential Detection.” Dating to the presidential election of 1800, this Federalist cartoon depicts the federal eagle preventing Jefferson from destroying the Constitution at the altar of French despotism. (American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts/The Bridgeman Art Library.)

An 1800 election banner that celebrates Jefferson’s victory. The incoming chief executive is surrounded by the words “T. JEFFERSON President of the United States of America” and “JOHN ADAMS is no MORE.” (National Museum of American History.)

Jefferson in 1800, by Rembrandt Peale. About to become president, Jefferson was fifty-seven years old. (Private collection/Peter Newark American Pictures/ The Bridgeman Art Library.)

(Left) Monticello. Jefferson demolished the original dwelling in 1794 and began construction of this mansion. It likely looked more or less like this during his final retirement years, 1809 to 1826. (© Christopher Hollis/Wdwic Pictures, used under a Creative Commons 2.5 License.)

(Right) The Grange, Hamilton’s home which he had constructed shortly after the election of 1800. The photograph shows the Grange as it looks in 2012, after its second relocation to St. Nicholas Park in upper Manhattan. (Photograph by Flickr user Jack and Dianne, used under a Creative Commons 2.0 License.)