BIB_ID
282217
Accession number
MA 977.43
Published
[New York : s.n., 1873?]
Description
1 print : steel engraving ; image: 192 x 138 mm; sheet: 237 x 170 mm
Notes
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
Portrait of Austen adapted from a sketch by Cassandra Austen and engraved for inclusion in Evert A. Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America, published in New York by H.J. Johnson and others, 1872-1874.
High reserve.
Portrait of Austen adapted from a sketch by Cassandra Austen and engraved for inclusion in Evert A. Duyckinck's Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America, published in New York by H.J. Johnson and others, 1872-1874.
Summary
Seated three-quarter portrait of Austen wearing a ribboned cap and facing left, with her left arm at rest on a portfolio binder of manuscripts and a ring on the ring finger of her left hand.
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