Details
Contributor Lossing & Barritt, engraver.
Title Peter, Sarah Worthington King, 1800-1877.
Alternate title [Sarah Worthington King Peter]
Publisher [New York? : s.n.]
Date [1855?]
Physical description 1 print : wood engraving ; 6 x 5.8 cm.
Description Bust-length portrait of the educator, with a lace shawl draped over her head.
Notes In Hale, S.J. Woman's record (Philadelphia, 1855), p. 870. "Illustrated by two hundred and thirty portraits engraved on wood by Lossing and Barritt."
Mrs. Peter, with the help of a teacher she hired, started a school in her home in 1848. As a training program in industrial design for young women, the school gained the sponsorship of the Franklin Institute in 1850. In 1853, it was incorporated as the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (and today is known as Moore College of Art).
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859
Wood engravings -- 1850-1859
Subject Peter, Sarah Worthington King, 1800-1877 -- Portraits
Philadelphia School of Design for Women.
Women educators.
Women.
Is part of Portraits of American Women
Has format TMP.objres.7404.jpg