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Creator Currier & Ives.
Title John Brown - the martyr. Meeting a slave mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution. Regarding them with a look of compassion Captain Brown stooped and kissed the child then met his fate. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1870
Date 1870
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 36 x 26 cm (14 x 10.25 in.)
Description Print depicting the fictitious meeting between John Brown and an enslaved African American mother on the radical abolitionist's walk to the gallows in December 1859. Shows Brown, his hands tied behind his back, standing at the door of the Charles Town, Virginia jail gazing compassionately upon the barefooted mother and her child seated to the side of him on a stair railing. In front of them stands a stern-faced, white man soldier waiting impatiently for Brown's descent down the steps.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement.
Purchase 1969.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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.
Subject Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- United States.
African American infants -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
African American mothers -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
African American women -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
Mothers & children -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
Enslaved persons -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
Soldiers -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
Enslaved babies -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
Enslaved women -- West Virginia -- Charles Town.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Portrait prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Portrait Prints-B [7811.F]
Accession number 7811.F