Bust-length portrait of the white British deacon, abolitionist and author as a younger man, facing right. He is attired in a powdered wig, a shirt with a ruffled collar, and a jacket. Clarkson, a founder of the British Anti-Slavery Society, influential in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, wrote "The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the African Slave-Trade" (London, 1808) to promote further anti-slavery legislation., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Creator
Maverick, Peter, 1780-1831, engraver
Date
[ca. 1820]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - C [(1)5750.F.90b]
