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Artist:
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870?  Search this
Copy after:
Henry Louis Stephens, 1824 - 1882  Search this
Sitter:
William Lloyd Garrison, 10 Dec 1805 - 24 May 1879  Search this
Medium:
Wood engraving on paper
Dimensions:
Image: 27.7 × 19.8cm (10 7/8 × 7 13/16")
Sheet: 28.5 × 21.3cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8")
Type:
Print
Date:
1862
Exhibition Label:
Born Newburyport, Massachusetts
During the three decades preceding the Civil War, no figure loomed more prominently in the crusade against slavery than William Lloyd Garrison, founding editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator. In its pages, he was one of the first to demand complete and immediate freedom for African Americans. When this caricature of Garrison appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair on August 23, 1862, President Lincoln had already written a draft of his Emancipation Proclamation, intending shortly to put abolitionists’ rhetoric into action.
Nacido en Newburyport, Massachusetts
A lo largo de las tres décadas que precedieron a la Guerra Civil, no hubo figura más prominente en la cruzada antiesclavista que William Lloyd Garrison, editor fundador del periódico abolicionista The Liberator. Desde sus páginas, Garrison fue uno de los primeros en exigir la total e inmediata liberación de los afroamericanos. Cuando esta caricatura apareció en la portada de Vanity Fair el 23 de agosto de 1862, el presidente Lincoln ya había escrito un borrador de su Proclamación de Emancipación, con la pronta intención de convertir en acción la retórica de los abolicionistas.
Topic:
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair  Search this
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses  Search this
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table  Search this
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Pipe  Search this
Illustration  Search this
Symbols & Motifs\Symbolic Figure  Search this
William Lloyd Garrison: Male  Search this
William Lloyd Garrison: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer  Search this
William Lloyd Garrison: Journalism and Media\Newspaper publisher  Search this
William Lloyd Garrison: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist  Search this
William Lloyd Garrison: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist  Search this
William Lloyd Garrison: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist\Suffragist  Search this
William Lloyd Garrison: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Temperance  Search this
Portrait  Search this
Credit Line:
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Object number:
NPG.78.229
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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National Portrait Gallery Collection
Location:
Currently not on view
Data Source:
National Portrait Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4156dca24-36a6-4836-8058-2993761df059
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npg_NPG.78.229