Details
Creator Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer.
Contributor Inman, Henry, 1801-1846, artist.
Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, lithographer.
Title Roberts Vaux [graphic] / Painted by Henry Inman; On Stone by A. Newsam.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval, Lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1840
Date [ca. 1840]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 20 x 15 cm (7.75 x 5.75 in.)
Description Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, and social reformer who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and who wrote several pamphlets against the spread of slavery into the western territories. Vaux, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, looks at the viewer.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Date inferred from content and medium.
Printed below image: I am with great truth thy affectionate friend, Roberts Vaux.
Accessioned 1893.
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.
Biographical / historical note Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
Subject Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836 -- Portraits.
American Anti-Slavery Society.
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Authors.
Philanthropists.
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Social reformers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Portrait prints -- 1830-1840.
Printer Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, lithographer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait prints-V [5657.F.15a]
Accession number 5657.F.15a