Artist: after a photograph by Whipple & Black. Boston.
Engraver: John Sartain (1808 – 1897). He was an English-born American artist who pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States.
Title: Louis Agassiz. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1808-1897), was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Titled, Dated, and Signed in plate: engraved by J. Sartain - Phila from a photograph by Whipple & Black. Boston. Louis Agassiz. Engraved for the Eclectic Magazine. (Last line has been cut off and shown here for reference purposes only).
Dimensions: 8" x 5".
Edition: Eclectic Magazine, 1857(?).
Date: mid 19th century.
Materials and Techniques: Mezzotint, etching, engraving, stipple and photomechanical texture on off-white wove paper.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Tears, foxing, soiling, trimmed to image. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Museums and Libraries: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1948.23.74.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: American School XIX C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia and the catalog entry of a similar item from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts collection.