Samuel Nelson (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

 

Max Rosenthal

  1833 - 1918 (biography)

1903  

etching 

19 7/8 x 16 1/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated; probably of edition of 100 

ink titled; engraved beneath: Copyright by Max Rosenthal; etched seal of the U.S. Supreme Court, lower left 

 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

16844 

$400.00 

Samuel Nelson (November 10, 1792–December 13, 1873) was an American attorney and an Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Nelson served as a state circuit judge from 1823 until 1831, when he became associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York. In 1837, he was elevated to Chief Justice.