Images of Thomas Jefferson in the Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (1900)
The Jeffersonian
Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of Thomas Jefferson. Classified
and Arranged in Alphabetical Order Under Nine Thousand Titles, Relating to
Government, Politics, Law, Education, Political Economy, Finance, Science,
Art, Literature, Religious Freedom, Morals, etc. Edited by John P. Foley
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls
Co., 1900). </title/2373> [Available only in PDF - note that it is very large]. [The illustrations and the Topical Index are available in a smaller PDF file here </title/2374>].
This book is a 1,000 page alphabetical compilation of the thoughts of Thomas
Jefferson. The entries are taken from the 12
volume collection of his works edited by Paul Leicester Ford. It also includes
numerous illustrations of Jefferson and a detailed Topical Index with cross-references
to other entries in the cyclopedia. The volume is thus an excellent source
for quotations by Jefferson on thousands of topics.
Not much is known about the editor, John P. Foley. We can say that
a work like this would have taken several years and is the sort of work scholars
used to do before there were computerized search engines. We also know from
Foley's Preface to the work that he was an ardent
Jeffersonian. As he states in the Preface “Among the Statesmen of all time,
(Jefferson) is the foremost Expounder of the Rights of Man, of the unalienable
right of every human being to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That is the object of all just Government, to preserve which Jeffersonian principles
must be sacredly cherished.”
List of portraits and statues of Thomas Jefferson in the book:
- Portrait by Stuart (Frontispiece)
- Portrait by Peale (p. 96)
- Portrait by Desnoyers (p. 192)
- Portrait by Brumidi (p. 288)
- Bronze Statue by d Angers (p. 384)
- Portrait by Stuart (p. 480)
- Monticello, the Home of Thomas Jefferson (p. 590)
- Portrait by Sully (p. 714)
- Marble Statue by Powers (p. 800)
- Portrait by Otis (p. 896)
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Portrait by Stuart (Frontispiece)
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Bronze Statue by d Angers (p. 384)
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Monticello, the Home of Thomas Jefferson
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