Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence

Artist James Wallace Black (American, 1825 - 1896)

Date1863

MediumAlbumen carte-de-visite

DimensionsImage and sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 3/16 inches (8.26 × 5.56 cm)
Mount: 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 inches (10.64 × 6.35 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3823

SignedAttribution on mount verso, center, in black type/logo: "J.W.BLACK / 173 / WASHINGTON ST. / BOSTON."

InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence. / A Redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of age. Redeem- / ed in Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence, baptized / in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward / Beecher, May, 1863."

MarkingsOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by / C.S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of / the United States, for the Southern District of New York."

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DescriptionImage of a of young girl with short curly hair wearing a striped dress. She's standing in front of a painted landscape with small coulmns; her hands are clasped.

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