Details
Creator Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver.
Contributor Allen & Horton, daguerreotypist.
Allen & Horton, daguerreotypist.
Title Theodore Parker [graphic] / Engraved by S.A. Schoff from dag. by Allen & Horton.
Publisher [Boston] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 23 x 15 cm (8.75 x 5.75 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the Boston Unitarian clergyman, social reformer, and abolitionist. Parker is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket and faces the viewer. Parker aided John Brown and was active in New England antislavery societies which provided shelter and legally defended freedom seekers, including William and Ellen Craft, the first enslaved Bostonians sought under the Fugitive Slave Law.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from history of the engraver and attire of sitter.
Accessioned 1982.
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.
Biographical / historical note Schoff, an engraver in Boston from the early 1840s until the 1860s, specialized in portraiture.
Subject Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860 -- Portraits.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Unitarian Universalist churches -- Clergy -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Social reformers -- United States.
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Portrait prints -- 1850-1860.
Illustrator Allen & Horton, daguerreotypist.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints-P [P.8911.751]
Accession number P.8911.751