Details
Creator Hall, Charles Bryan, 1840-1913, engraver.
Title Thomas Wentworth Higginson [graphic] / Engraved by Charles B. Hall, New York.
Publisher [New York] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York
Date [between 1870 and 1900]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 29 x 24 cm (11.5 x 9.5 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, Unitarian minister, social reformer, author, and military officer. Higginson, attired in a white collared shirt, a necktie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Higginson actively disobeyed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, was one of the financial supporters of John Brown's insurrection, and commanded the first federally authorized African American regiment, the First South Carolina Volunteers, renamed the 33rd Colored Infantry Regiment.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Date inferred from presented 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 Hall, son of New York engraver Henry Bryan Hall, worked in a partnership with his brothers and father in the late 19th century, eventually operating the business alone after 1899.
Subject Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Portraits.
United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1864-1866)
Abolitionists -- United States.
Authors -- United States.
Social reformers.
Unitarian Universalist churches -- Clergy -- United States.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel -- Union.
Genre Engravings -- 1870-1900.
Portrait prints -- 1870-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints-H [P.8911.463]
Accession number P.8911.463