Details
Creator Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver.
Contributor Gorbitz, Johan, 1782-1853, artist.
Title Frances Wright. [graphic] / J. Gorbitz; J.C. Buttre.
Publisher [New York] : [Fowler & Wells]
Date [1881]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 in.)
Description Half-length portrait of the British suffragist and abolitionist. Wright, wearing her hair parted in the middle in curls and attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white shawl and belt, rests her left elbow on a table and touches her left hand to her face.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Published as frontispiece in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of woman suffrage (New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881). (LCP Am 1881 Sta, 23781.O).
Gorbitz was a 19th-century Norwegian portrait painter.
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Wright, Frances, 1795-1852 -- Portraits.
Suffragists.
Women abolitionists -- United States
Women.
Genre Engravings -- 1880-1890.
Frontispieces -- 1880-1890.
Portrait prints -- 1880-1890.
Illustrator Gorbitz, Johan, 1782-1853, artist.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| portrait prints - Wright [P.8911.1069]
Accession number P.8911.1069