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The last moments of John Brown (leaving the jail on the morning of his execution) / Hovenden N.A. 1885, painter & etcher.
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Print shows John Brown, under heavy guard, kissing a young African American child, as he leaves a jail on his way to the gallows. Includes a remarque of Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left.
Q17090 U.S. Copyright Office.
Copyrighted by Thos. Hovenden, 1885.
Stamped on lower left: 2nd Copy Delivered to the Art Gallery Nov. 2 1897.
Inscribed in ink on upper right of verso: Aug. 12, 1885 17090 Copy a.
Inscribed in pencil on upper left of verso: Thos. Hovenden - Phila. Aug. 12, 1885 17090q.
Print after a painting of the same title now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York depicts John Brown leaving the jail enroute to his execution. The moment is based on an account in the New York Tribune, published on December 5, 1859.
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