Details
Creator Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Wilson, Joseph M., publisher.
Title Jno. W. Holm [graphic] / Engraved by Samuel Sartain, Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by Joseph M. Wilson
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date [ca. 1858]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 23 x 15 cm (9 x 5.75 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the African American minister of the New School Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. Holm, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly left. Holm, a former resident of Liberia, was an alumnus of the Presbyterian-sponsored Ashmun Institute, now Lincoln University, the first school of higher education in science and arts for Black men, founded in Oxford, Pennsylvania in 1854.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Date inferred from presented age of the sitter.
Probably published in "Presbyterian Magazine," the Philadelphia periodical published by Wilson.
Wilson, a Philadelphia publisher and bookseller, published the "Presbyterian Magazine" from 1851 until 1860.
Originally part of a McAllister Scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
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 Holm, John William, -1863 -- Portraits.
Ashmun Institute -- Alumni and alumnae -- Pennsylvania.
African American clergy -- New York (State) -- New York -- Portraits.
African American men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Portraits.
African American Presbyterians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Portraits.
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Portrait prints -- 1850-1860.
Printer Wilson, Joseph M., publisher.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints-H [(2)5750.F.31d]
Accession number (2)5750.F.31d