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Title: W.H. Seward
Description: Photographic reproduction of a bust-length portrait drawing 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, waistcoat, and jacket, is depicted in right profile., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on presented age of sitter., 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.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Seward [(3)5750.F.38b]

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: William H. Seward Likeness from the latest photograph from life
Description: Full-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, pants, and shoes, sits on a wooden chair near a table covered with stacked papers and books. An ottoman is beside his feet, papers are strewn on the floor, and a draped column is visible in the background., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from copyright statement., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Co., 1861-1864), vol. II, p. 280., 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., 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: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-S [P.8911.874]

Title: William H. Seward Likeness from the latest photograph from life
Description: Full-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, pants, and shoes, sits on a wooden chair near a table covered with stacked papers and books. An ottoman is beside his feet, papers are strewn on the floor, and a draped column is visible in the background., 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. II, p. 280., Publication information from duplicate print., 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., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [5657.F.39a]

Title: William H. Seward
Description: Portrait of the abolitionist politician, Secretary of State under Lincoln, and New York senator and governor. Seward, attired in a white collared shirt, a plaid bowtie, a dark-colored waistcoat and jacket, is in left profile., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co.,1887-1888), vol. 5, p. 470. 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: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.8911.870]

Title: William H. Seward
Description: Bust-length portrait of the antislavery politician, Secretary of State under Lincoln, and New York senator and governor. Seward is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket and faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from 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.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.871]

Title: S.P. Chase
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, 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, waistcoat, and jacket, sit facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from the working dates of the engraver and the attire of sitter., Carpenter made professional trips to Washington, D.C. in 1855 and 1864, the latter to paint the president and his cabinet., Buttre, a New York portrait painter and engraver, worked in the city from the mid to late 19th century., 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: Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-Chase [P.8911.221]

Title: S.P. Chase Likeness from a recent photograph from life
Description: Full-length portrait of the antislavery leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, seated by a writing table in front of a heavily decorated fireplace and mantle., 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. (LCP Uz 3, 3333.Q)., 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., 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: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [P.8911.228]

Title: S.P. Chase
Description: Bust-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, waistcoat, jacket, and judge's robe, faces slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Artist's signature in pencil below image., Published in Hampton L. Carson, The Supreme Court of the United States: it's history (Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Co., 1891), opp p. 389., Gift of Beatrice Garvan, 1994., 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: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, etcher
Date: [1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [P.9476.94]

Title: Sec. Chase
Description: Full-length portrait of Salmon P. Chase, 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, waistcoat, jacket, pants, and shoes, sits beside a table that has with an inkwell and papers on top of it., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date based on presented age of sitter., Possibly by Mathew B. Brady., 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.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Chase [(1)5750.F.80g]

Title: S.P. Chase United States senator from Ohio
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, 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, waistcoat, and jacket, faces forward., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date based on the engraver., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Jones, a printer, mezzotint and stipple engraver, worked as an engraver and printer in Cincinnati after 1854.
Creator: Jones, Fitz Edwin, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-Chase [(1)5750.F.82c]

Title: S.P. Chase
Description: Reproduction of a bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, 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, waistcoat, and jacket, faces forward., 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 1885 and 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Chase [P.8911.228]

Title: S.P. Chase Likeness from a recent photograph from life
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., 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.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints-Chase [P.8911.222]

Title: Chief-Justice Chase. Portrait of the dead Chief Justice
Description: Bust-length portrait of the abolition leader, Ohio Senator, statesman, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right. Includes accompanying obituary., Title from item., Published in The Daily graphic, May 1873., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister, 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 - Chase [(1)5750.F.79c]

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