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Title Revd. William Miller, Superintendant of the Wesleyan Zion Connexion in America. [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1840
Date [ca. 1840]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 30 x 25 cm (11.75 x 9.5 in.)
Description Half-length portrait of the African American Methodist bishop for the New York conference, pastor of the First Wesleyan of Philadelphia, educator, and abolitionist. Miller, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, holds a book in his right hand.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from presented age of sitter.
Possibly by Philadelphia lithographer Albert Newsam.
Footnote with biographical information about sitter published in Julie Winch's The Elite of our people (University Park: The Penn State University Press, 2000), p. 140 n54.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1972, p. 61.
Purchase 1972.
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 Miller, William, 1775-1845 -- Portraits.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church -- Bishops.
African American Methodists -- United States.
African American abolitionists -- United States.
African American clergy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American educators -- United States.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Portrait prints -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait prints-M [8035.F.1]
Accession number 8035.F.1