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Alice, d. 1802., Alice / engraved from an original sent from America, by Mackenzie.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A69944
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Contributor
Mackenzie, engraver.
Hurst, Thomas, publisher.
Title
Alice, d. 1802.
Alternate title
Alice / engraved from an original sent from America, by Mackenzie.
Publisher
[London] : Pub. Jan. 1. 1803, by T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row.
Date
[1804?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 9.8 x 6.2 cm.
Description
Bust-length portrait of Alice, wearing a bonnet.
Notes
In Thomas, Isaiah. Eccentric biography; or, Memoirs of remarkable female characters, ancient and modern (Worcester, 1804), plate preceding p. vii.
Alice, known variously as Black Alice and Alice of Dunk’s Ferry, was a native of Philadelphia and a slave, born to parents who had come from Barbados. She is said to have been 116 at the time of her death in 1802. In extreme old age Alice received many visitors who enjoyed hearing stories about early Philadelphia and its famous first settlers, including William Penn and Thomas Logan. Alice was also a lifelong worshiper at Christ Church in Philadelphia.
“Being a sensible intelligent woman, and having a good memory, which she retained to the last, she would often make judicious remarks on the population and improvements of the city and country; hence her conversation became peculiarly interesting, especially to the immediate descendents of the first settlers, of whose ancestors she often related acceptable anecdotes.”--P. 9.
Genre
Portrait prints -- 1800-1809.
Engravings -- 1800-1809.
Subject
Alice, d. 1802 -- Portraits.
Women.
African American women.
Afro-Americana.
Older women.
Barbadians.
Women slaves.
Related resource
http://www.librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/age.htm
In Collections
Portraits of American Women
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