Details
Creator Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver.
Title Wm. G. Brownlow [graphic] / Engd. by J.C. Buttre.
Publisher New York : Published by J.C. Buttre, 48 Franklin St
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1877
Date [1877]
Physical Description 1 print : steel engraving ; sheet 26 x 19 cm (10.25 x 7.5 in.)
Description Half-length portrait of the Tennessee journalist, itinerant preacher, and politician. Brownlow, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, grasps his lapel with his left hand. Brownlow, although an advocate of slavery, actively opposed Southern secession and was subsequently exiled from the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Notes Title from item.
Printed signature of sitter below image.
Published in The American portrait gallery. (New York: J.C. Buttre, 1877), vol. II, pl. 11. (LCP Uz 1t, 6584.Q).
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 Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877, -- Portraits.
Journalists -- Tennessee.
Politicians -- Tennessee.
Spiritual leaders -- Tennessee.
Genre Engravings -- 1870-1880.
Portrait prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.119]
Accession number P.8911.119