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Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Artist: Unidentified Artist
Publisher: Pendleton Lithography Company, active c. 1825 - 1836
Sitter: Phillis Wheatley, c. 1753 - 5 Dec 1784

Date: c. 1834

Type: Book

Medium: Lithograph (frontispiece)
Dimensions: Image: 10 × 8.3 cm (3 15/16 × 3 1/4"); Book closed: 15.5 × 9.5 cm (6 1/8 × 3 3/4"); Book open: 15.5 × 18.5 cm (6 1/8 × 7 5/16")

Topic: Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair; Printed Material\Book; Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table; Print; Illustration; Phillis Wheatley: Female; Phillis Wheatley: Literature\Writer\Poet; Phillis Wheatley: Society and Social Change\Enslaved person; Portrait

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Donald Fenn

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Object number: S/NPG.78.45

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery

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