(SLAVERY ABOLITION) Kneeling Woman and a Sister engraving a

Sale 2598 - Lot 48

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Kneeling "Woman and a Sister" engraving, after Patrick Reason. Etching, 3 1/4 x 2 1/2-inch plate mark on a 7 3/4 x 5 1/4-inch sheet; light fold, corner crease in margin; edges uncut. No place, circa 1840s

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We have traced no other examples of this rendition, with the faint vegetation in the background. It is closely based on the 1836 engraving by Patrick Henry Reason (1816-1892) of New York, an early Black engraver. Variants were used frequently by the American Anti-Slavery Society, often with the addition of the caption "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister." This stand-alone example may have been done by Reason or an imitator.