Profile of Adam Smith. The original depiction of Smith was created in 1787 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tassie" class="extiw" title="w:James Tassie">James Tassie</a> in the form of an enamel paste <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smith_medallion_portrait.jpg" class="extiw" title="w:File:Smith medallion portrait.jpg">medallion</a>.  Smith did not usually sit for his portrait, so a considerable number of engravings and busts of Smith were made not from observation but from the same enamel medallion produced by Tassie, an artist who <i>could</i> convince Smith to sit.
Etching created by Cadell and Davies (1811), John Horsburgh (1828) or R.C. Bell (1872).
Original work in 1787. Etching produced in 1811, 1828 or 1872
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