Details
Contributor Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, artist.
Childs & Inman, printer.
Title Fanny Kemble [graphic] / Painted from recollection by T. Sully.
Publisher Philadelphia: Childs & Inman lithrs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1833
Date 1833
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; sheet 34 x 25 cm (13.25 x 9.75 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, author, dramatist, and actress in the character of Julia, written specifically for her by Sheridan Knowles for his play "The Hunch Back." Her memoir, "Residence of a Georgian Plantation (1863)," described the degradation and inhumanities of slavery witnessed by Kemble while living at the plantation of her Philadelphian husband, Pierce Butler, from 1838 until 1839.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date from copyright statement: Entered acccording to act of Congress in the year 1833 by Childs & Inman in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern Distrcit of Pennsylvania.
Original painting by Sully located at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.
Sully, a respected Philadelphia portrait painter and friend of Kemble, painted thirteen portraits of the actress, the majority by recollection.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Subject Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 -- Portraits.
Women abolitionists -- United States.
Women authors -- United States.
Actresses -- United States.
Women dramatists, American.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *portrait prints - K [5657.F.25]
Accession number 5657.F.25