Details
Contributor Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887, artist.
Johnson, Fry & Co., publisher.
Title Henry Ward Beecher. [graphic] / From the original painting by Chappel, in the possession of the publishers.
Publisher New York : Johnson, Fry & Co. publishers
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1871
Date 1871
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 22 x 15 cm (8.75 x 5.75 in.)
Description Full-length portrait after the painting by New York historical painter, Alonzo Chappel, of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, jacket, pants, and shoes, sits on a chaise lounge with his legs crossed holding an open book. His left hand touching his face as though he is deep in thought. More books rest on the chaise lounge and on a side table in the right.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1871 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Possibly published in a later edition of Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans (New York: Johnson, Fry, & Co., [1861-1864]).
Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portrait Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subjects' faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies that he situated in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph.
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.
Subject Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- United States.
Clergy -- New York (State) -- New York.
Genre Engravings -- 1870-1880.
Portrait prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer Johnson, Fry & Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.167]
Accession number P.8911.167