May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AFRICA.) Buttre, J.C., engraver; after a photograph by Brady. Portrait of the Rev. Francis Burns, missionary bishop of Liberia. Engraving, 10 x 6 1/2 inches; moderate foxing, 2-inch chip in right margin, 1-inch closed tear, mount remnants on verso. Np, [March 1859]
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Francis Burns (1809-1863) was raised in poverty near Albany, NY, and became a Methodist minister. He made his first missionary trip to Liberia in 1834, and spent most of the remainder of his life there, being appointed bishop in 1858. This engraving was issued as an illustration for a feature article on Burns in the March 1859 issue of the Ladies' Repository, pages 129-132.