Bust portrait, facing right within oval of the white English philanthropist and Member of Parliament. Wilberforce is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and dark colored double-breasted coat. Wilberforce was active in the Church Missionary Society and the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor. In Parliament he worked to abolish the transatlantic slave trade., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, engraver
Date
1808
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [1885.F.79]
Bust-length portrait, showing the English philanthropist, politician, and abolitionist, facing slightly right, seated, and reading a book. Wilberforce is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and a double-breasted jacket. He was active in the Church Missionary Society; Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor; and worked in Parliament to abolish the slave trade., Published as frontispiece in Lydia Marie Child's The Oasis (Boston: Benjamin C. Bacon, 1834). (Am 1834 Chi, 70173.D.5)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., 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., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021., Andrews, a Boston engraver, who studied and worked in Europe during the mid 19th century, was a prominent line engraver and portraitist.
Creator
Andrews, Joseph, 1806-1873, engraver
Date
[1834]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [5750.F.150b]
