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Title: Gerit Smith abolitionist
Description: Half-length portrait of the ardent philanthropist, social reformer, and abolitionist, who was actively involved as a "station master" in the Underground Railroad. Smith, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [5306.F.11a]

Title: Frederick Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent African American abolitionist facing slightly right. Douglass wears a mustache and greying hair and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of our times; or leading patriots of the day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co., 1868), pl. 12. (LCP Am 1868 Sto, 17904.O)., 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.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - D [P.8911.273]

Title: Frederick Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent African American abolitionist, probably after the portrait photograph taken by Rochester, New York photographer John Howe Kent in 1882. Douglass, wearing a full beard and grey hair and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces right in a three-quarter pose., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed below image: With sentiments of highest regard, Very truly yours, Frederick Douglass., Gift of Frances Kean, 1993., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2021., See John Stauffer et al., Picturing Frederick Douglass: An illustrated biography of the nineteenth's century most photgraphed man (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016), p. 190, 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.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - D [P.9409]

Title: D. Wilmot
Description: Bust-length portrait of the young Pennsylvania legislator, best known as the author of the "Wilmot Proviso," the unpassed 1846 bill which would have prohibited the extension of slavery into the annexed territory of Mexico. Wilmot, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [P.8911.1036]

Title: Frances Wright
Description: Half-length portrait of the British suffragist and abolitionist. Wright, wearing her hair parted in the middle in curls and attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white shawl and belt, rests her left elbow on a table and touches her left hand to her face., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of woman suffrage (New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881). (LCP Am 1881 Sta, 23781.O)., Gorbitz was a 19th-century Norwegian portrait painter., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Wright [P.8911.1069]

Title: John Brown
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the radical abolitionist, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and pants. Brown stands with his left hand in his trouser pocket and looks toward the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Probably after photographer James Wallace Black., 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.
Date: [between 1860 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-B [P.8911.69]

Title: Abolitionist
Description: A man, one half of his body shown as a white man and the other half as an African American man, lectures in front of a small table. He holds an umbrella with his African American hand, as well as wears no shoe on his African American foot., Text: Whew! don't you know that you're played out? That your occupation's gone? Why do you make such fuss about that poor old well-pick'd bone? Or are you lost, so far corrupted, You can't improve 'till re-constructed?
Date: ca. 1865-1866

Title: Gerrit Smith
Description: Bust-length portrait of the philanthropist, social reformer, and abolitionist, who was actively involved as a "station master" in the Underground Railroad. Show Smith attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a patterned waistcoat, and a black jacket., Title from printed signature of sitter below the image., Published in George W. Bungay's Off-hand takings, or, crayon sketches of the noticeable men of our age (New York: Dewitt and Davenport, 1854), p. 330., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [10753.D]

Title: Maj. Gen. Cassius M. Clay
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Southern abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and diplomat. Clay, attired in his Union uniform, faces slightly left. Clay, appointed to the Union Army in 1862 and concurrently to a diplomatic appointment to Russia, refused military service until the Union abolished slavery in the Confederacy. He actively served in 1863., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., Printed signature of sitter below image., 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., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career, a three volume set of celebrity portraiture, "American Portrait Gallery," in 1877, which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Clay [P.8911.304]

Title: Frederick Douglass
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent African American abolitionist as a young man. Douglass, wears a goatee and is attired in a white collared shirt, a wide black tie, waistcoat, and jacket. He faces slightly to the right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Julia Griffiths, ed. Autographs for freedom (New York: Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 1854), opp. p. 251. (LCP Am 1854 Griff, 70567.O)., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - D [P.8911.274]

Title: William E. Channing, D.D
Description: Half-length portrait of the Massachusetts Unitarian clergyman, abolitionist, and author. Channing, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, jacket, and robes, rests his right hand and points his finger on an open book, probably the Bible. Channing, who wrote several abolitionist pamphlets from 1835 until 1842, adamantly denounced war as the means to abolish slavery., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: January 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-C [P.8911.225]

Title: Wm. Lloyd Garrison
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist, publisher, and author, as an older man. Garrison, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., 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.
Creator: Stuart, Frederick T., 1837-1913, engraver
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.387]

Title: J.R. Giddings
Description: Bust-length portrait of radical antislavery Ohio congressman Joshua Reed Giddings, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, waistcoat, and jacket, facing left., Published as frontispiece in Julia Griffiths', ed. The Autographs of freedom (New York: Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 1854). (LCP Am 1854 Griff, 70567.O)., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career in 1877, "American portrait gallery," a three-volume set of celebrity portraiture which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.396]

Title: Miss Fanny Kemble in the character of Portia The original miniature in the possession of Mrs. C. Kemble
Description: Waist-length portrait showing the abolitionist, actress, dramatist, and author, seated and in the costume of the heiress character from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." Kemble is attired in a large feathered hat, long earrings, a pearl necklace, and an elaborate ruffled dress adorned with pearls and jewels. In 1829, Kemble made her debut performance as Portia, her favorite Shakespearean character that represented her ideal of perfect womanhood. Her memoir, "Residence of a Georgian Plantation (1863)," described the degradation and inhumanities of slavery witnessed by Kemble while living at the plantation of her Philadelphian husband, Pierce Butler, from 1838 until 1839., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021., Accessioned 1893., Sartain, a premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was also a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - K [5658.F.36]

Title: Horace Mann
Description: Bust-length portrait of the educator, abolitionist, and congressman who assisted in the legal defense of abolitionists who aided freedom seekers. Mann, attired in a white collared shirt and a black jacket, faces left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from medium., 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.
Date: [between 1870 and 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-M [P.8911.1110]

Title: B.F. Wade
Description: Half-length portrait of the aged abolitionist Senator from Ohio, as an older man. Wade, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right. Wade fought for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, was a partisan of the 14th Amendment, and was a supporter of the Freedman's Bureau and numerous civil rights bills., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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.
Creator: Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1021]

Title: B.F. Wade
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist Senator from Ohio. Wade, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, sits in a wooden chair and faces left. Wade fought for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, was a partisan of the 14th Amendment, and was a supporter of the Freedman's Bureau and numerous civil rights bills., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [P.8911.1116]

Title: John Greenleaf Whittier
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "Pennsylvania Freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat, a jacket, and an overcoat with a fur collar, faces slightly left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted age of the sitter., 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., Schoff, an engraver working in Boston during the 1850s and 1860s, specialized in portrait and bank note engraving.
Creator: Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - W [P.8911.1050]

Title: [ John Greenleaf Whittier]
Description: Half-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Freeman," as an older, bearded man. Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits facing slightly left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Plate includes artist's monogram lower right corner., 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.
Date: [between 1870 and 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - W [P.8911.1049]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Half-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls and attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white lace collar, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age of the sitter., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career, a three volume set of celebrity portraiture, "American Portrait Gallery," in 1877, which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [between 1850 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.918]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait after a daguerreotype of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls and attired in a long-sleeved white dress with a lace collar and a dark-colored shawl, tilts her head down and rests the left side of her cheek and chin on her left hand., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from medium and content., 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.
Date: [between 1870 and 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.919]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a young woman. Stowe, attired in a dress with a white neckline, looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., 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., Wilcox, an engraver and portrait painter, was active in Boston from 1860 until the early 20th century.
Creator: Wilcox, John Angel James, 1835-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.8911.920]

Title: H.B. Stowe
Description: Three-quarter length, left profile portrait of the abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Stowe, wearing her hair in ringlet curls with a headband and attired in a long-sleeved, dark-colored dress with a shawl, holds a pencil in her hands, which rest on an open book in her lap., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1872 by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Published in Evert Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women in Europe and America:... (New York: Johnson, Wilson, & Co, 1872-1874), vol. 2, p. 434. (LCP Uz 1,4915.Q), 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., 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 subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph.
Date: 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [(1)5750.F.235b]

Title: Henry Ward Beecher
Description: Three-quarter length portrait in right profile of the Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, and pants, sits with his hands folded on his lap. Beside him is a table with an inkstand and books. A distant view of the New York harbor is visible in the background., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1874 by Johnson, Wilson & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Published in Evert Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America... (New York: Johnson, Wilson, & Co., 1872-1874), vol.2, opp. p. 61. (LCP Uz1 4915.Q), Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. 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.
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [(1)5750.F.211b]

Title: H.W. Beecher at 40
Description: Bust-length portrait of Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket. He faces forward and looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career in 1877, "American portrait gallery," a three-volume set of celebrity portraiture which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [between 1853 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.30]

Title: H.W. Beecher at 40
Description: Bust-length portrait of Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket. He faces forward and looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career in 1877, "American portrait gallery," a three-volume set of celebrity portraiture which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Creator: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [between 1853 and 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.30]

Title: H.W. Beecher
Description: Bust-length portrait of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Publication information supplied by Library of Congress' ALA Portrait Index (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906), p. 114., Published in Appleton's Annual cyclopedia (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887), vol. 12, p. 64., 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.
Date: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.166]

Title: Henry Ward Beecher
Description: Full-length portrait after the painting by New York historical painter, Alonzo Chappel, of the prominent Brooklyn preacher and abolitionist. Beecher, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, jacket, pants, and shoes, sits on a chaise lounge with his legs crossed holding an open book. His left hand touching his face as though he is deep in thought. More books rest on the chaise lounge and on a side table in the right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1871 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Possibly published in a later edition of Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans (New York: Johnson, Fry, & Co., [1861-1864])., 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 that he situated 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.
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.167]

Title: John Brown. Leader of the Harper's Ferry insurrection
Description: Full-length portrait depicting the radical abolitionist with a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, a black jacket, and pants. He sits in a chair beside a small table and holds an edition of the "New York Tribune," an abolitionist newspaper, in his right hand. Also shows a map of "Kanzas" adorning the wall in the background to symbolize the controversial extension of slavery., Title from item., Date inferred from content., The Kellogg Firm, brothers Edmund Burke and Elijah Chapman, was a prolific New England lithographic firm that nearly rivaled Currier & Ives in the production of popular prints., Reaccessioned as P.8911.60., Purchase 1969., 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.
Creator: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait Prints-B [7809.F]

Title: R.W. Emerson
Description: Bust-length portrait of the transcendentalist, preacher, and abolitionist. Emerson, attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Appears in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887-1889), vol. 2, p. 343. The Cyclopedia was reissued in 1901., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900, engraver
Date: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - E [P.8911.325]

Title: Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly left. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Printed below image: Your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Putnam operated his own publishing business between 1857 and 1867., 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.
Creator: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.63]

Title: Major General B.F. Butler, U.S.A
Description: Playing card size bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General attired in military uniform. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.62]

Title: Fanny Kemble
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, author, dramatist, and actress in the character of Julia, written specifically for her by Sheridan Knowles for his play "The Hunch Back." Her memoir, "Residence of a Georgian Plantation (1863)," described the degradation and inhumanities of slavery witnessed by Kemble while living at the plantation of her Philadelphian husband, Pierce Butler, from 1838 until 1839., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date from copyright statement: Entered acccording to act of Congress in the year 1833 by Childs & Inman in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern Distrcit of Pennsylvania., Original painting by Sully located at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia., Sully, a respected Philadelphia portrait painter and friend of Kemble, painted thirteen portraits of the actress, the majority by recollection., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Date: 1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - K [5657.F.25]

Title: Lucretia Mott
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, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib,68635.D)., Purchase 1976., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was also a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [8198.F.2]

Title: Lucretia Mott
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, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib 68635.D)., Accessioned after 1870 and before 1900., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [1885.F.60]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, sits in left profile. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., 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.
Creator: Stuart, Frederick T., 1837-1913, engraver
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-P [P.8911.768]

Title: Wendell Phillips
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women's rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of our times; or leading patriots of our day...(Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co., 1868), Pl. 17. (LCP Am 1868 Sto, 17904.D)., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., 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.
Creator: Smith, Henry Wright, -1828, engraver
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-P [P.9363.82]

Title: John G. Whittier
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed below image: Truly thy friend, John G. Whittier., Published as frontispiece in John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1849). (LCP Am 1849 Whi, 12099.O)., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Warren, Asa Coolidge, 1819-1904, engraver
Date: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1051]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from variant published as frontispiece in C. Edward Lester's Life and public services of Charles Sumner (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874). (LCP Am 1874 Les, 19880.0)., Gift of Bruce Pearson, 2013., Includes tissue paper overlay., 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.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.2013.58.13]

Title: Charles Sumner, U. S. Senator, from Mass
Description: Periodical illustration depicting a bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, slightly faces right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from item., Date inferred from inscription on recto., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [(3)5750.F.67a]

Title: William H. Seward Likeness from an approved photograph from life
Description: Three-quarter length, right profile portrait of the abolitionist politician, Secretary of State under Lincoln, New York senator and governor. Seward, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, jacket, and pants, sits near a table covered with stacked papers, books, and an inkwell with pens. In the background is a column and drapery., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Entered according to act of Congress AD 1873 by Johnson, Wilson & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington., Appears in Evert Duyckinck’s Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America (New York, 1873), vol. 2, opp. p. 461., Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckick'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., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. 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.
Date: 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [(1)5750.F.234a]

Title: Emerson
Description: Bust-length portrait commissioned by Furness's father, Unitarian minister and abolitionist William H. Furness, as a tribute to his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his deceased son who was the original artist. Depicts the transcendentalist, preacher, and abolitionist, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, facing slightly right. Sartain's father, engraver John Sartain, was a family friend of Furness and a supporter of the abolition movement., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1871 by W.H. Furness D.D. in the office of the Librarian of Congress Washington D.C., Printed below title: (Private Plate)., See a description of the commission of the portrait print in Phyllis Peet's "Emily Sartain: America's first woman mezzotint engraver," Imprint 9 (Autumn 1984), p. 22., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, Emily, 1841-1927, engraver
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - Emerson [P.9966]

Title: Horace Greeley
Description: Bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a patterned waistcoat, and a dark-colored jacket, faces forward., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887), vol. 2, p. 734. The Cyclopedia was reissued in 1901. (LCP Reference Uz 1t, 4163.Q)., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.
Creator: Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850-1900, engraver
Date: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - G [P.8911.409]

Title: William H. Seward
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist politician, Secretary of State under Lincoln, and New York senator and governor. Seward, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, is in left profile., Title from printed signature below image., Dated based on presented age of the sitter., 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.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.873]

Title: William H. Seward Senator of the United States
Description: Bust-length portrait of the antislavery politician, Secretary of State under Lincoln, New York senator and governor. He faces slightly left and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket. Seward served as a senator from 1849 until 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from the years of the Senate terms and attire of sitter., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Bannister, James, 1821-1901, engraver
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.872]

Title: Robert Owen
Description: Bust-length portrait of the social reformer, Indiana Congressman, and Chair of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, as a young man. Owen, attired in a white collared shirt with a cravat and a dark-colored jacket, is depicted facing right. Owen's work with the commission has been credited as the impetus for the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau during reconstruction., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Lambdin, a portrait and miniature painter, worked in Pittsburgh and Kentucky before establishing himself in Philadelphia in 1837., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints -O [(2)5750.F.174]

Title: Thaddeus Stevens
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Pennsylvania Congressman, abolitionist, civil rights advocate, and member of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. Stevens, attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Variant appears in William H. Barnes' History of 39th Congress (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868), p. 29., 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.
Creator: G.E. Perine & Co., engraver
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.908]

Title: Thaddeus Stevens
Description: Bust-length portrait of the radical Pennsylvania congressman, abolitionist, civil rights advocate, and member of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. Stevens, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie and waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., 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.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.909]

Title: Charles Sumner "Do not let the Civil Rights bill fail."
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Sumner, a leading radical Republican during Reconstruction, was the author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Date from variant published as frontispiece in C. Edward Lester's Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner (New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874). (LCP Am 1874 Les, 19880.0)., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., 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.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.9363.97]

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts senator, abolitionist, reformer, and civil rights advocate. Sumner, attired in a white collared shirt, a patterned bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Printed signature of sitter below image., Published in American portrait gallery (New York: J.C. Buttre, 1877), vol. 1, pl. 33. (LCP Uz 1t, 6584.Q), Accesssioned 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.
Creator: Robin, Augustus, engraver
Date: [1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.926]

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