Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

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Title: Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
Creator: Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
Published / Created: [20th century]
Publication Place: United States
Abstract: Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century.
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lettering in English.
Title from lettering on plaque.
Provenance: Bequest of Grayce Fairfax Nail, 1970.
Extent: 1 sculpture : 20 x 16 x 1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Plaster of Paris United States 20th century
Sculpture (visual work) United States 20th century
Material: plaster ;
Resource Type: three-dimensional form
Subject (Geographic): United States.
Subject (Name): Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic): African American sculptors
African American women poets
Poets, American
Sculptors
Subjects: Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 > Portraits
African American sculptors
African American women poets > Portraits
Poets, American > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Portraits
Sculptors > United States
United States > 20th century

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Citation: Meta Warrick Fuller, Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.