Details
Creator Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900, engraver.
Title R.W. Emerson [graphic] / Engd by H.B. Hall Jr. New York.
Publisher [New York] : [D. Appleton & Co.]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1887
Date [1887]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the transcendentalist, preacher, and abolitionist. Emerson, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Appears in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887-1889), vol. 2, p. 343. The Cyclopedia was reissued in 1901.
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- United States.
Clergymen -- United States.
Transcendentalists (New England) -- United States.
Genre Engravings -- 1880-1890.
Portrait prints -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| portrait prints - E [P.8911.325]
Accession number P.8911.325