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Morrell, Abby Jane, 1809-
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Contributor
Miller, Robert, active 1830-1843, printer of plates.
Sloan, artist.
Gimber & Dick, engraver.
Title
Morrell, Abby Jane, 1809-
Alternate title
Abby Jane Morrell / Sloan, pinx’t; Gimber & Dick, sculp’t; Miller; print.
Publisher
New York : J. & J. Harper.
Date
[1833?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 12.6 x 7.6 cm
Description
Waist-length portrait of the world traveler, holding a book.
Notes
In Morrell, A.J. Narrative of a voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831 (New York, 1833), frontispiece.
At age fifteen, Abigail Jane Wood Morrell, known as Abby, married her sea captain cousin Benjamin Morrell, Jr. She accompanied him on a multi-year voyage aboard the schooner Antarctic. In 1831, they returned to New York, in debt. To raise money, Benjamin organized a stage show entitled “Two Cannibals of the Islands of the South Pacific.” The firm J. & J. Harper published their journals as monographs; Benjamin’s was ghostwritten by Samuel Woodworth, and Abby’s was ghost-written by Samuel L. Knapp.
Genre
Engravings -- 1830-1839.
Portrait prints -- 1830-1839.
Subject
Women.
Morrell, Abby Jane, 1809- -- Portraits.
Women travelers.
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Portraits of American Women
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