Details
Contributor Baker, Samuel F., engraver.
Title Patton, Abby Hutchinson, 1829-1892.
Alternate title Abby Hutchinson / S.F. Baker, del. sc.
Publisher [New York? : s.n.]
Date [1847?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 7.7 x 6 cm.
Description Waist-length portrait of the singer, seated.
Notes In Phrenological and physiological almanac for 1848, (New York, 1847), p. 39.
Mrs. Abby Hutchinson Patton sang with her siblings as contralto for the Hutchinson Family Singers, a popular antebellum musical group. The Hutchinsons were supporters of numerous reform issues, abolitionism in particular. Cf. Gac, Scott. Singing for freedom (New Haven, 2007).
Another portrait (with three other family members) appears in the People's journal, vol. 1, no. 17 (Apr. 25, 1846), p. 225.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Subject Patton, Abby Hutchinson, 1829-1892 -- Portraits.
Women.
Women singers.
Phrenology.
Women social reformers.