John Quincy Adams

Moritz Fürst

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 1807, at age twenty-six, the Vienna-trained die engraver Fürst moved to the United States. His major commissions included award medals for Army and Navy commanders in the War of 1812 and Indian Peace Medal portraits of all presidents from James Monroe (1758-1831) to Martin van Buren (1782-1862). This medal commemorates the March 4, 1825 inauguration of President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848). Fürst’s prolific output made him the most important engraver in American medallic art during the early nineteenth century.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art