The Old Print Shop

John N. Barber.

  • ARTIST:

  • MEDIUM: Engraving,

    DATE: undated, circa 1870.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 6 5/16 x 4 3/16" (161 x 107 mm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Text under images continues: "Born February 2nd, 1798. This portrait is from a photograph - It represents the Author with pencil and port-folio in hand in the act of sketching from Nature - The likeness will be recognized by many in all parts of our Country, who saw him while on his tour through the Union collecting materials taking sketches for the engravings in this work." Portraits of the following Abolitionists; John Quincy Adams, Henry Ward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, Joshua R. Giddings, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Gerrit Smith, Cassius M. Clay, Owen Lovejoy and Benjamin Lundy. Each image is identified with a name below.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some minor staining in margins.

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