Noah Webster, 1758-1843 – Antique 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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This antique engraving of Noah Webster, 1758-1843 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Noah Webster, 1758-1843
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Noah Webster is shown here in a steel engraving made after a painting by Chappel, a portrait that presents the lexicographer as the familiar figure of American learning. Webster (1758-1843) is best remembered for his "American Dictionary of the English Language," published in 1828, which set out to give the young nation a vocabulary and spelling of its own, distinct from British usage. He also produced the "Blue-Backed Speller," a schoolbook that taught generations of American children to read. This print, issued around 1867 by Johnson, Fry & Co., shows how his reputation had settled into a national emblem decades after his death.
| Created / published | c1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : steel engraving. |
| Notes | Steel engraving after painting by Chappel. Copyrighted by Johnson, Fry & Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I. (2); BI; Books and reading; Publ. Ind.; Shelf. Webster, Noah, 1758-1843. Sources checked: BI; BF; MUMS. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,067 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171749 |
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