Details
Contributor Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887, artist.
Johnson, Fry & Co., publisher.
Title S.P. Chase [graphic] : Likeness from a recent photograph from life / Painted by Alonzo Chappel.
Publisher [New York] : [Johnson, Fry & Co. publishers]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1863
Date [1863]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 22 x 14 cm (8.75 x 5.5 in.)
Description Full-length portrait of the abolitionist leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black jacket, pants, and shoes, sits at a writing desk with a pen in his hand. In the left is a footstool covered in papers. In the background is a decorated fireplace and mantle.
Notes Title from printed signature of sitter below image.
Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Co., 1861-1864), vol. 2, p. 320.
Publication information from a duplicate print.
Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's "Portrait Galleries" of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subjects' faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph.
Accessioned 1982.
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.
Subject Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- United States.
Cabinet officers -- United States -- 1860-1870.
Legislators -- Ohio.
Statesmen -- American -- United States.
Supreme Court justices -- United States -- 1860-1880.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Book illustrations -- 1860-1870.
Engravings -- 1860-1870.
Portrait prints -- 1860-1870.
Printer Johnson, Fry & Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| portrait prints-Chase [P.8911.222]
Accession number P.8911.222