Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
Depicted
Dred Scott
(American, 1795 – 1858)
Dred Scott (ca. 1795–1858)
After 1857
Oil on canvas
Overall: 28 x 25 in. ( 71.1 x 63.5 cm )
Framed: 33 × 30 in. (83.8 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 33 × 30 in. (83.8 × 76.2 cm)
New-York Historical Society
X.174
Born of enslaved parents in Southampton County, Va., the subject entered the pages of American history as the key figure in the famed Dred Scott case of 1857, which determined that Scott, who had once resided in free territory, was not entitled to his freedom in the slave state of Missouri. This portrait was copied from a daguerreotype made of Scott and his family in St. Louis in early 1857, or from a woodcut based on it that was published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" and elsewhere.
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- Underground Railroad
