Samuel W. Rowse

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The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia was a lithograph by Samuel Rowse in the 1850s

Samuel Worcester Rowse (January 29, 1822 – 1901) was an American artist.

Works

His more famous works, mostly drawings in black and white, and in crayon, include:

Ralph Waldo Emerson (the drawing here)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Arthur Hugh Clough
Henry David Thoreau
Fanny Appleton Longfellow
Howard Dwight

Annie Adams Fields, wife of Boston publisher James Thomas Fields, sat for a black crayon drawing by Rowse and noted the artist as "eccentric but true and interesting".^[1]

Copies of his lithograph of The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia were used by anti-slavery activists prior to and during the American Civil War (1861–1865) to raise funds for the Underground Railroad and other anti-slavery campaigns. Henry Brown, a slave, had escaped from Richmond, Virginia in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a small box, where he was received by Reverend James Miller McKim and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society.

References

↑ Gollin, Rita K. Annie Adams Fields: Woman of Letters. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002: 43. ISBN 978-1-55849-313-1

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Name	Rowse, Samuel W.
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Short description	American artist
Date of birth	January 29, 1822
Place of birth
Date of death	1901
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