Frederick Douglass" / Charles White '51." – Antique Wall Art
(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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Frederick Douglass" / Charles White '51." comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Frederick Douglass" / Charles White '51."
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Charles White's 1951 lithograph presents Frederick Douglass, the formerly enslaved Maryland-born abolitionist, writer, and orator who became one of the most influential voices against slavery in the nineteenth century. White, a Chicago-born artist who spent much of his career portraying Black life and history, made portraits like this one during a period when he was turning to notable African Americans as subjects. Douglass's 1845 autobiography and his newspaper, *The North Star*, shaped his public standing, and the print invites viewers to consider how a twentieth-century artist chose to represent a figure whose words and example still carried weight a century after his death.
| Created / published | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1950-1960.Lithographs 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,806 × 4,774 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219768 |
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