Henry Melvill, 1789-1871 – Historic Print
(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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Henry Melvill, 1789-1871 comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Henry Melvill, 1789-1871
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A wood-engraved portrait of Henry Melvill appeared in the *Illustrated London News* on January 20, 1844, on page 48 of that week's issue. The paper had only begun in 1842 and was among the first weekly publications to use wood engravings for both news scenes and portraits of public figures, so its likenesses of clergymen and other notable men were a fresh feature for readers of the time. The record gives the sitter's dates as 1789 to 1871, but the identification is marked unverified, and the cataloguer noted a possible confusion with a Henry Melville who wrote a history of Van Diemen's Land, so researchers should confirm the sitter before relying on the name.
| Created / published | 1844 Jan. 20. |
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| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1844 Jan. 20, p. 48. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Peroidicals I.; BI; Shelf. Sources checked: Websters, ?MUMS: Melville, Henry Saxelby, 1800?-1873? [author of the History of Van Dieman's Land 1824-1835; wwwa. Biog file has a Henry Melville from about that period. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,126 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151083 |
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