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]
Vignette portrait of the Unitarian clergyman, abolitionist, and author. Channing, attired in a white shirt with a black clergyman’s collar and black jacket, sits faces slightly left. Channing who wrote several antislavery pamphlets from 1835 until 1842, adamantly denounced war as the means to abolish slavery., Title from item., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[between 1860 and 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - C [P.8911.224]
Bust-length portrait of the Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist who personally aided and housed freedom seekers as a member of several abolitionist organizations, including the New England Emancipation Aid Society. Parker, wearing spectacles and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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
J. Gurney & Son, photographer
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Parker [P.2282.116]
Bust-length portrait of the abolitionist, Unitarian minister, social reformer, author, and military officer. Higginson, attired in a white collared shirt, a necktie, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right. Higginson actively disobeyed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, was one of the financial supporters of John Brown's insurrection, and commanded the first federally authorized African American regiment, the First South Carolina Volunteers, renamed the 33rd Colored Infantry Regiment., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Hall, son of New York engraver Henry Bryan Hall, worked in a partnership with his brothers and father in the late 19th century, eventually operating the business alone after 1899.
Creator
Hall, Charles Bryan, 1840-1913, engraver
Date
[between 1870 and 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-H [P.8911.463]
