Details
Contributor Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889, artist.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Robert Owen [graphic] / Lambdin, Px.
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1840
Date [ca. 1840]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 29 x 24 cm (11.25 x 9.25 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of the social reformer, Indiana Congressman, and Chair of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, as a young man. Owen, attired in a white collared shirt with a cravat and a dark-colored jacket, is depicted facing right. Owen's work with the commission has been credited as the impetus for the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau during reconstruction.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Dated based on the presented age of the sitter.
Lambdin, a portrait and miniature painter, worked in Pittsburgh and Kentucky before establishing himself in Philadelphia in 1837.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877 -- Portraits.
United States. American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission
Abolitionists -- United States.
Legislators -- Indiana.
Social reformers -- United States.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Portrait prints -- 1840-1850.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| portrait prints -O [(2)5750.F.174]
Accession number (2)5750.F.174