Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Johnson, Wilson & Company, publisher.
Title H.B. Stowe [graphic] / From the original painting by Chappel in the possession of the publishers.
Publisher New York : Johnson, Wilson & Co., Publishers
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1872
Date 1872
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 28 x 21 cm (10.75 x 8 in.)
Description Three-quarter length, left profile portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls with a headband and attired in a long-sleeved, dark-colored dress with a shawl, holds a pencil in her hands, which rest on an open book in her lap.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1872 by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Published in Evert Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women in Europe and America:... (New York: Johnson, Wilson, & Co, 1872-1874), vol. 2, p. 434. (LCP Uz 1,4915.Q)
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.
Biographical / historical note 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 subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph.
Subject Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Portraits.
Women authors, American.
Women abolitionists -- United States.
Genre Engravings -- 1870-1880.
Portrait prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer Johnson, Wilson & Company, publisher.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints-S [(1)5750.F.235b]
Accession number (1)5750.F.235b