Sojourner Truth
1864
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print (carte-de-visite)
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Credit Line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 8.4 × 5.5 cm (3 5/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
mount: 10.3 × 6.2 cm (4 1/16 × 2 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2023.39.49
More About this Artwork
Article: Six Abolitionists in Photographs
See the portraits of antislavery activists, including Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower center on mount printed in black ink: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. / SOJOURNER TRUTH.; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top left in graphite: AF028; top right: 815RHH: center printed in black ink: Entered according to act of Con- / gress in the year 1864, by SOJOURNER / TRUTH. in the Clerk's Office, of the / U. S. District Court, for the Eastern / District of Michigan.