| Creator |
Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, photographer. |
| Title |
Lucretia Mott. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Date |
photographed December 1860, printed ca. 1875 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format) |
| Description |
Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved
dress, and a white shawl, sits holding a book, her elbow resting on a side table, a drape with tassels in the background.
|
| Notes |
Title from manuscript note on mount. |
|
Date from duplicate in private collection. |
|
Attributed to Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown from inscription in modern hand on verso. |
|
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. |
|
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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Biographical / historical note |
Frederick A. Wenderoth, William Curtis Taylor, and Frederick Brown, a Philadelphia photographic firm established in 1865,
operated until around 1884. Wenderoth, a technician in the studio of Samuel Broadbent starting around 1860, assumed the business
of his employer, with his first partner Taylor, around 1863.
|
| Subject |
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 -- Portraits. |
|
Quaker women -- United States. |
|
Social reformers -- United States. |
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Women abolitionists -- United States. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
|
Cartes de visite -- 1870-1880. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Mott [(2)5750.F.150c] |
| Accession number |
(2)5750.F.150c |
