against the soldiers, and seems to have admired
the bearing of Samuel Adams throughout the
disturbances. At any rate, for this portrait, he
has chosen to give Samuel Adams as he stood
in the scene with Hutchinson in the council
chamber. Against a background suggestive of
gloom and disturbance, the figure looks forth.
The face and form are marked by great
strength. The brow is high and broad, and
from it sweeps back the abundant hair, streaked
with gray. The blue eyes are full of light and
force, the nose is prominent, the lips and chin,
brought strongly out as the head is thrown
somewhat back, are full of determination. In
the right hand a scroll is held firmly grasped, the
energy of the moment appearing in the cording
of the sinews as the sheets bend in the pressure.
The left hand is thrown forth in impassioned
gesture, the forefinger pointing to the provin-
cial charter, which with the great seal affixed,
lies half unrolled in the foreground. The plain
dark-red attire announces a decent and simple
respectability. The well-knit figure looks as
fixed as if its srength came from the granite
on which the Adamses planted themselves when
they came to America; the countenance speaks
in every line the man.

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