Engraving
- Title:
- George Bancroft
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.0072
- Creator:
- Chappel, Alonzo (1828-1887); Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers
- Place of Origin:
- New York City, NY
- Date:
- 1862
- Description:
- Engraving. Portrait of George Bancroft (1800-1891). Painted by Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887), 1862. Engraved by Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers. From Evert A. Duyckinck, National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc...Vol. II. (New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1862), facing page 396. Steel engraving, printed on paper. Full-length portrait of an old man, seated, with white hair and mutton-chops, hand on parchment on table, black tie, black coat and trousers, books scattered on table and floor, facing left, study for background. "Painted by Alonzo Chappel": "George Bancroft" facsimile signature; "Likeness from a recent Photograph from life"; "Johnson, Fry & Co. Publishers, New York"; "Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1862 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the clerks office of the district court for the southern district of N.Y." printed beneath portrait.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.7 W-7.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Bancroft, George, Politics & government, Politicians, Historians
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