Details
Creator Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898, engraver.
Contributor Ingham, Charles Cromwell, 1796-1863, painter.
Title Robt Adrain [graphic] / Engraved for the Democratic Review by P.H. Reason. From a painting by Ingham.
Publisher New York : Democratic Review
Date [1844]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 22 x 14 cm (8.75 x 5.25 in.)
Description Half-length portrait of the mathematician, professor, and author. Adrain, attired in a white shirt and scholarly black robes, faces the viewer with his right hand on an open book. Adrain was born in Ireland and left due to his revolutionary beliefs. He taught at Queens College (later Rutgers), Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania where for a short while he was also Vice-Provost.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Appears in "The United States magazine and Democratic review" (June 1844), 24: frontis.
Accessioned 1884.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Reason was an African American artist, engraver and lithographer working in New York City in the 1830s and 1840s.
Subject Adrain, Robert, 1775-1843 -- Portraits.
Mathematicians.
African American engravers.
Genre Engravings -- 1840-1850.
Frontispieces -- 1840-1850.
Periodical illustrations -- 1840-1850.
Portrait prints -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait prints - A [52551.O.13a]
Accession number 52551.O.13a