Details
Creator Robin, Augustus, engraver.
Title Charles Sumner [graphic] : "Do not let the Civil Rights bill fail." / Engd by A. Robin N.Y.
Publisher New York : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1874
Date [ca. 1874]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 23 x 16 cm (9 x 6 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Notes Title from item.
Printed signature of sitter below image.
Date from variant published as frontispiece in C. Edward Lester's Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874). (LCP Am 1874 Les, 19880.0).
Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991.
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 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 -- Portraits.
United States Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Abolitionists -- United States.
Civil rights leaders -- United States -- 1860-1870.
Legislators -- Massachusetts.
Social reformers -- United States.
Genre Engravings -- 1860-1870.
Portrait prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints-S [P.9363.97]
Accession number P.9363.97