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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 jacket with velvet lapels, faces left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of photographer and presented age of sitter., Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996., 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., Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer as opposed to technician of the portraits.
Creator: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Phillips [P.9516.2]

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 manuscript note written on mount., American Celebrities Album., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: [United States]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33b]

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: Roberts Vaux
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, and social reformer who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and who wrote several pamphlets against the spread of slavery into the western territories. Vaux, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content and medium., Printed below image: I am with great truth thy affectionate friend, Roberts Vaux., Accessioned 1893., 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., Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-V [5657.F.15a]

Title: Roberts Vaux
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia Quaker philanthropist, abolitionist, and social reformer who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and who wrote several pamphlets against the spread of slavery into the western territories. Vaux, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, looks at the viewer., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content and medium., Printed below image: I am with great truth thy affectionate friend, Roberts Vaux., Accessioned after 1870 and before 1900., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait prints-V [1885.F.23]

Title: Immediate emancipation illustrated
Description: Critical satire of the American Anti-Slavery Society, which was founded on the principle of immediate abolition by Arthur Tappan and William Lloyd Garrison, who are depicted discussing the society's principles with an unnamed abolitionist, possibly Lewis Tappan. Above their heads is the banner "Anti Slavery Society Founded Anno Domini MDCCCXXXIII." The seated Garrison comments on the origin of the bundle of Italian linen at his feet, which is to be used for his newspaper "the Emancipator." In the right, the figure of a leopard rests upon a pedestal marked "Fanaticism. Brought the Inquisition upon Spain. Beggary upon Italy. And may drench America in blood!!" (an allusion to the idiom a leopard cannot change its spots and to the Spain and the Iberian War, 1807-1814). In the left, a Black man, labeled "Emancipated Slave," is portrayed in racist caricature and is naked except for a leaves wrapped around his waist. He chases an insect calling, "Food," while carrying a knife. In the background, a scene labeled "Insurection (sic) in St. Domingo! Cruelty, Lust, and blood!" depicts Black people using swords and axes to kill white people, including a white woman on the ground. A building burns behind them., Title from item., Date supplied by Weitenkampf., Probably the "A Caricature" cited in the Emancipator (New York, N.Y.), October 19, 1833 and Liberator (Boston, Mass.), November 2, 1833., The "Emancipated Slave" figure is similar to the figure depicted in the lithograph by Alfred Ducôte, "An Emancipated Negro" ([London]: Thomas McLean, 1833). Copies in the collections of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London., Purchase 1986., RVCDC, 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: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1833 - 27W [P.9140]

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