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Title: Cinque The chief of the Amistad captives
Description: Bust portrait of the enslaved leader after a painting by New Haven, Connecticut artist, Nathaniel Jocelyn, engraved by Philadelphia artist and Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society member, John Sartain, to raise funds for the enslaved ship mutineers' defense before the Supreme Court. Sartain reproduced the painting, commissioned in 1841 by Philadelphia African American abolitionist and Amistad Committee defense fund member, Robert Purvis, following the refusal of the Artist Fund Society to display the original at the society's 1841 exhibit. Depicts the West African, attired in a toga, walking cane in hand, slightly facing left, in front of a background of African landscape., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content., Printed on recto: fac simile of the original autograph., Original painting in the collections of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro history, p. 34., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America, #61., See Ann Katherine Martinez's The Life and career of John Sartain (1808-1897): A nineteenth century Philadelphia printmaker (Ph.D dissertation, The George Washington University, 1986), p. 75-78., See Hugh Honour's The Image of the Black in western Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), part 2, vol. IV, p. 159-161., See Katherine Martinez's and Page Talbott's, eds. The Sartain family legacy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), p. 66-67., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-C [5306.F.35]

Title: Cinque The chief of the Amistad captives
Description: Bust portrait of the enslaved leader after a painting by New Haven, Connecticut artist, Nathaniel Jocelyn, engraved by Philadelphia artist and Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society member, John Sartain, to raise funds for the enslaved ship mutineers' defense before the Supreme Court. Sartain reproduced the painting, commissioned in 1841 by Philadelphia African American abolitionist and Amistad Committee defense fund member, Robert Purvis, following the refusal of the Artist Fund Society to display the original at the society's 1841 exhibit. Depicts the West African, attired in a toga, walking cane in hand, slightly facing left, in front of a background of African landscape., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content., Printed on recto: fac simile of the original autograph., Original painting in the collections of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro history, p. 34., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America, #61., See Ann Katherine Martinez's The Life and career of John Sartain (1808-1897): A nineteenth century Philadelphia printmaker (Ph.D dissertation, The George Washington University, 1986), p. 75-78., See Hugh Honour's The Image of the Black in western Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), part 2, vol. IV, p. 159-161., See Katherine Martinez's and Page Talbott's, eds. The Sartain family legacy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), p. 66-67., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-C [5306.F.35]

Title: Gerit Smith abolitionist
Description: Half-length portrait of the ardent philanthropist, social reformer, and abolitionist, who was actively involved as a "station master" in the Underground Railroad. Smith, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings. 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [5306.F.11a]

Title: Horace Greeley
Description: Bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley, attired in a white collared shirt, a necktie with stripes, a black waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly left., Title from item., Published as frontispiece in Nineteenth century (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & Co., 1848), vol 1., no. 1., Gift of Bruce Pearson, 2013., 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: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - G [P.2013.58.5]

Title: John G. Whittier
Description: Bust-length portrait of the poet, abolitionist, journalist, and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the "Pennsylvania freeman." Whittier, attired in a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Printed below image: Truly thy friend, John G. Whittier., Published as frontispiece in John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1849). (LCP Am 1849 Whi, 12099.O)., 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: Warren, Asa Coolidge, 1819-1904, engraver
Date: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-W [P.8911.1051]

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib,68635.D)., Purchase 1976., 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., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was also a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [8198.F.2]

Title: Lucretia Mott
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of the Quaker abolitionist and reformer. Mott, attired in a white cap, a dark-colored, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl, is seated on a wooden chair facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published as frontispiece in The Liberty bell (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1844). (LCP Am 1844 Lib 68635.D)., Accessioned after 1870 and before 1900., 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., Sartain, the premier 19th-century Philadelphia portrait engraver, was a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [1885.F.60]

Title: Rev. Christopher Rush
Description: Half-length portrait of the New York African Methodist Episcopal Reverend, Superintendent of the Zion Connexion of the New York and Philadelphia conferences, and the author of "A Short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America,...(1843, republished 1866)." Rush, attired in white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces the viewer., Title from item., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Variant of (2)5750.F.26c. Facial expression and features, as well as attire have been altered, including additional buttons added to coat., Purchase 2001., 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. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - R [P.9975.1]

Title: Rev. Christopher Rush
Description: Half-length portrait of the New York African Methodist Episcopal Reverend, Superintendent of the Zion Connexion of the New York and Philadelphia conferences, and the author of "A Short account of the rise and progress of the African M.E. Church in America,...(1843, republished 1866)." Rush, attired in white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces the viewer., Title from item., Date inferred from 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. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-R [(2)5750.F.26c]

Title: Revd. Charles W. Gardner Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of the people of colour in Philadelphia, Decr. 20th 1841
Description: Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia community reformer and abolitionist Presbyterian pastor. Gardner, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, is seated and facing forward. Gardner, originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, aided freedom seekers and participated in the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, as well as worked with several African American intellectual, benevolent, and reform societies including the American Moral Reform Society., Title from item., 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., 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: [1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait prints-G [(1)5750.F.178b]

Title: Revd. Richard Allen Bishop of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of the U.S
Description: Half-length portrait of abolitionist and first African American bishop, Richard Allen. Allen, born enslaved in Philadelphia, founded and was ordained the first bishop of the denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1816. Allen, attired in a white tie, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Probably drawn on stone by deaf and mute Philadelphia lithographer Albert Newsam., Purchase 2001., 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. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Allen [P.9968]

Title: Revd. William Miller, Superintendant of the Wesleyan Zion Connexion in America
Description: Half-length portrait of the African American Methodist bishop for the New York conference, pastor of the First Wesleyan of Philadelphia, educator, and abolitionist. Miller, attired in a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black jacket, holds a book in his right hand., Title from item., Date inferred from presented age of sitter., Possibly by Philadelphia lithographer Albert Newsam., Footnote with biographical information about sitter published in Julie Winch's The Elite of our people (University Park: The Penn State University Press, 2000), p. 140 n54., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1972, p. 61., Purchase 1972., 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. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints-M [8035.F.1]

Title: Robert Owen
Description: Bust-length portrait of the social reformer, Indiana Congressman, and Chair of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, as a young man. Owen, attired in a white collared shirt with a cravat and a dark-colored jacket, is depicted facing right. Owen's work with the commission has been credited as the impetus for the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau during reconstruction., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Dated based on the presented age of the sitter., Lambdin, a portrait and miniature painter, worked in Pittsburgh and Kentucky before establishing himself in Philadelphia in 1837., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints -O [(2)5750.F.174]

Title: Robt Adrain
Description: Half-length portrait of the mathematician, professor, and author. Adrain, attired in a white shirt and scholarly black robes, faces the viewer with his right hand on an open book. Adrain was born in Ireland and left due to his revolutionary beliefs. He taught at Queens College (later Rutgers), Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania where for a short while he was also Vice-Provost., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Appears in "The United States magazine and Democratic review" (June 1844), 24: frontis., Accessioned 1884., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Reason was an African American artist, engraver and lithographer working in New York City in the 1830s and 1840s.
Creator: Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - A [52551.O.13a]

Title: William E. Channing, D.D
Description: 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]

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