Details
Creator Kneass, William, 1780-1840, engraver.
Title Benjamin Lay. [graphic] / Kneass Sc.
Publisher [Philadelphia: Solomon W. Conrad]
Date [ca. 1815]
Physical Description 1 print: stipple engraving; 22 x 15 cm.(8.75 x 5.75 in.)
Description Full-length portrait of the eccentric radical Quaker abolitionist, author, and hermit, his left hand slightly raised. He holds a cane and a book titled, "African Emancipation" in his other hand.
Notes Published as frontispiece in Roberts Vaux's Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford:...(Philadelphia: Solomon W. Conrad, 1815). (LCP Am 1815 Vaux, Log 1971.D).
Manuscript note below image: the Hermit - Nat: 1677. Ob: 1759. He was one of the first public advocates for the emancipation of the enslaved Africans. [Vide Memoirs of his life by R. Vaux.]. See page 124.
Portrait of Rev. Richard Allen on recto. (LCP Yi 2, 1069.F. 276)
From John Fanning Watson's Extra-illustrated Autograph Manuscript of "Annals of Philadelphia," p. 277. (LCP Yi 2, 1069).
Subject Lay, Benjamin, 1677-1759
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Authors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hermits -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1810-1820.
Engravings -- 1810-1820.
Frontispieces -- 1810-1820.
Provenance Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Print Portraits-L [Yi 2, 1069.F.276 (verso)]
Accession number Yi2, 1069.F.276 (verso)