REASON PATRICK [Am I not a Woman and a Sister]

Sale 2105 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 2,040

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

REASON, PATRICK. ["Am I not a Woman and a Sister"], engraved transfer on silk, with printed back, 3x3 inches with "pinked" edges for sewing. Identified in the caption beneath as being engraved by Reason. [together with] Articles of the New York Association of Friends, for the Relief of those held in Slavery, and the Improvement of the Free People of Color. Small folio leaf, folded to form four 4to pages, written on one side and addressed in ink to Esther Carpenter, a member of the Acting Committee on the last page; creases where folded for mailing, closed tear at one fold, small portion of blank corner excised. [New York], 1839

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A silk transfer of Reason's famous engraving. Perhaps it was to be sewn into a small pillow-like object, or a "sachet." It bears the image that appeared as a frontispiece to The Fountain published in New York in 1836, with the caption "Engraved by P. Reason, A Colored Young man of the City of New York, 1835." The printed silk backing bears the following: "To one who said the suitable time had not yet come to act upon the subject of slavery, a lady born and educated at the South made this reply, 'If thou wert a slave toiling in the fields of Carolina, I apprehend thou wouldst think the time had fully come.'"