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[Sarah Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, book on lap] – Vintage Photo Print

[Sarah Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, book on lap] — antique engraving
[Sarah Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, book on lap]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 [Sarah Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, book on lap], 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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[Sarah Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, book on lap]

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Shown seated and turned to the left, with a book resting on her lap, this steel engraving presents Sarah Margaret Fuller as a reader and thinker rather than a formal public figure. Fuller edited the transcendentalist journal *The Dial* and wrote *Woman in the Nineteenth Century* (1845), one of the earliest sustained American arguments for women's intellectual and social equality. Steel engraving was a favored method for portraits in mid-nineteenth-century books and magazines, prized for its fine detail and its durability across many impressions. Fuller died in 1850 when the ship carrying her, her husband, and their young son sank off Fire Island, New York.

Medium1 print : steel engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan901 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136080

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