Details
Creator Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver.
Title John Greenleaf Whittier [graphic] / Schoff sc.
Publisher [Boston] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1863
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 19 x 13 cm (7.5 x 5 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, a jacket, and an overcoat with a fur collar, faces slightly left.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date based on depicted age of the 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Schoff, an engraver working in Boston during the 1850s and 1860s, specialized in portrait and bank note engraving.
Subject Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892,
Abolitionists -- United States.
Editors -- United States.
Journalists -- American -- United States.
Poets.
Genre Engravings -- 1860-1870.
Portrait prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints - W [P.8911.1050]
Accession number P.8911.1050