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Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
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Contributor
Moorhead, Scipio, b. ca. 1750, artist.
Title
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784.
Alternate title
Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston.
Publisher
[London] : Published according to act of Parliament, Septr 1st, 1773 by Arch'd Bell, bookseller No. 8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate,
Date
[1773?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 12.6 x 10.1 cm.
Description
Three-quarter length portrait of writer, seated at a table, with pen in hand; inkwell and book nearby.
Notes
In Wheatley, P. Poems on various subjects, religious and moral (London, 1773), frontispiece.
Possibly based on a drawing by Scipio Moorhead.
Genre
Portrait prints -- 1770-1779.
Engravings -- 1770-1779.
Subject
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Portraits.
Women writers.
African American women.
Women.
Afro-Americana.
Is part of
Portraits of American Women
Has format
TMP.objres.2052.jpg
Related resource
http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/wheatley.htm
Image file
wheatley.jpg
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