In 1805, James
Akin engraved a full-length portrait of Lord Timothy Dexter
which was published January 1806, promoted with the following advertisement
in the Newburyport Herald on January 31, 1806:
Strange, Wonderful and Philosophic.
the most noble
Lord Timothy Dexter
First in the East.
This day published and for sale at the Bookstore of Thomas and
Whipple, sign of Johnson's Head, Market Square, a full length portrait
of the Eccentric Character with his Dog, engraved from Life, by James Akin.