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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: Brig. Gen. Edw. A. Wild
Description: Bust-length, front facing portrait of Wild attired in Union uniform. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War achieving the rank of Brigadier General. He commanded several African American brigades., Title from item., Published in Frank Moore, ed. Rebellion record (New York: D. van Nostrand, 1867) vol. 10, opp. p. 450. (LCP Per R 15), Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - W [P.8911.1048]

Title: Benj. F. Butler Likeness from the latest photograph from life
Description: Full-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in his military uniform with a sword, sits beside a table covered in a patterned cloth. There are papers on the table and strewn on the floor. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1861-1864), p. 423. (LCP Uz 3, 3333.Q)., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portraits Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subject's 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: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.128]

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: 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]

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