George Peabody, 1795-1869 – Vintage 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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Step back in time with George Peabody, 1795-1869, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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George Peabody, 1795-1869
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A steel engraving published under the Johnson, Fry & Co. imprint presents George Peabody, the Massachusetts-born merchant and banker who spent much of his career in London. Steel engraving allowed fine detail and was widely used for portraits of prominent men in the mid-19th century. By the 1860s Peabody was known for large philanthropic gifts, including housing for London's poor and support for educational and cultural institutions in Baltimore and in his native Massachusetts. The print dates from about 1867, only a couple of years before his death in London in 1869.
| Created / published | c1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : steel engraving. |
| Notes | Steel engraving copyrighted by Johnson, Fry & Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P Index; BI; Publ. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 926 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142400 |
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