Portia / painted by Fanny Bowers. – Antique Print
![Portia / painted by Fanny Bowers., [between 1880 and 1900] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1ec6af404472-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Portia / painted by Fanny Bowers., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Portia / painted by Fanny Bowers.
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The title names Portia, the heiress from Shakespeare's *The Merchant of Venice*, who is best known for disguising herself as a young lawyer to argue for mercy in the trial scene. Fanny Bowers's painting was reproduced here as a chromolithograph, a color printing process that flourished in the late nineteenth century and let publishers sell reproductions of paintings to middle-class households at modest prices. The print's date falls between 1880 and 1900, when such images often hung in parlors and sitting rooms as affordable art. Its subject, a learned and resolute woman, fits the period's interest in literary heroines.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1880-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1900. |
| Notes | Lithograph of painting by Fanny Bowers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,140 × 1,447 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219039 |
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