| Creator |
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer. |
| Title |
[John Greenleaf Whittier] [graphic] / Sarony, 37 Union Sqr. N.Y. |
| Publisher |
[New York] |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1880 |
| Date |
[ca. 1880] |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 17 x 11 cm (6.5 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card format) |
| Description |
Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman."
Whittier, with white hair and beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket with velvet on the lapels,
faces left.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Date inferred from presented age of the sitter. |
|
Photographer's imprint stamped on mount. |
|
Sitter incorrectly identified as Ralph Waldo Emerson on verso. |
|
Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
|
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Biographical / historical note |
Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees
of the time and often acted as artistic designer as opposed to technician of the portraits.
|
| Subject |
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807- 1892, -- Portraits. |
|
Abolitionists -- United States. |
|
Editors -- United States. |
|
Journalists -- American -- United States. |
|
Poets. |
| Genre |
Cabinet photographs -- 1870-1880. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cabinet card portraits - sitter - Whittier [P.9363.14] |
| Accession number |
P.9363.14 |
