Details
Creator Tiebout, Cornelius, 1777-1832, engraver.
Title Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African [graphic] / Tiebout Sculp.
Publisher [New York] : [W. Durrell]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1791
Date [1791]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 16 x 10 cm (6.25 x 4 in.)
Description Bust portrait of the British, Black free man and abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano, who authored one of the earliest and most influential autobiographies by a formerly enslaved person. He is attired in a dark-colored jacket with a collar and buttons and a white collared shirt, cravat, and waistcoat. He holds the Bible in his right hand, which is open to “Acts Chap. IV. V. 12.”
Notes Title from item.
Publication information and date inferred from source in which the portrait was originally included.
Published as the frontispiece in Olaudah Equiano's The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano...(New York: W. Durrell, 1791). (LCP Am 1791 Equ, Log 3936.D).
Accessioned after 1870 and before 1900.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- Great Britain.
Black people.
Freedmen -- Great Britain.
Men, Black.
Black men.
Black writers.
Free men -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1790-1800.
Engravings -- 1790-1800.
Frontispieces -- 1790-1800.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints - E [1885.F.145]
Accession number 1885.F.145