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- Creator:
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
- Published / Created:
- [20th century]
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 138 (Art)
- Container / Volume:
- (Art)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- three-dimensional form
- Abstract:
- Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
- Description:
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States.
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston