Description

Bust-length portrait, showing the English philanthropist, politician, and abolitionist, facing slightly right, seated, and reading a book. Wilberforce is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and a double-breasted jacket. He was active in the Church Missionary Society; Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor; and worked in Parliament to abolish the slave trade.; Drawn by H. Edridge; Eng. by J. Andrews.; Published as frontispiece in Lydia Marie Child's The Oasis (Boston: Benjamin C. Bacon, 1834). (Am 1834 Chi, 70173.D.5).; Andrews, a Boston engraver, who studied and worked in Europe during the mid 19th century, was a prominent line engraver and portraitist.

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