Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, 1805.

Descendents of Sally Hemings and, most probably, Thomas Jefferson gather at Monticello in 1999.

John Marshall by William James Hubbard, 1834.

The north wing of the new United States Capitol, by William Birch in 1800.

Jefferson's embargo of 1807 was labeled a "terrapin policy"—one that would "shut up the nation in its own shell." In this cartoon, the embargo's repeal in 1809 is graphically celebrated.

Jefferson's mountaintop home, Monticello, painted by Jane Pitford Braddick Peticolas, circa 1827.

Maria Cosway, the young woman with whom Jefferson became infatuated. This engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a painting by Maria's husband, Richard Cosway, hangs in the parlor at Monticello.

A cartoon by James Akins (circa 1804) portraying Jefferson as a "philosophic cock" courting a hen with a dark complexion and a slave's headdress.