Lucretia Coffin Mott
Object Details
- Artist
- Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888
- Sitter
- Lucretia Coffin Mott, 3 Jan 1793 - 11 Nov 1880
- Exhibition Label
- Born Nantucket, Massachusetts
- A devout Quaker whose activism proved unsettling to some members of her faith, Lucretia Mott assumed a highly visible role in the abolitionist movement. After joining William Lloyd Garrison at the launch of the American Anti-Slavery Society, she helped to found Philadelphia’s Female Anti-Slavery Society. Her concern for women’s rights was a natural outgrowth of her abolitionist efforts. In 1848, Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention at Seneca Falls, New York, that galvanized the women’s suffrage movement.
- Nacida en Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Cuáquera devota, cuyo activismo resultaba alarmante para ciertos miembros de su comunidad, Lucretia Mott asumió un rol destacado en el movimiento abolicionista. En 1833, luego de fundar junto a William Lloyd Garrison la Sociedad Antiesclavista Americana, ayudó a fundar la Sociedad Antiesclavista Femenina de Filadelfia. Su preocupación por los derechos de la mujer era conse- cuencia natural de sus esfuerzos anti-esclavistas; en 1848 colaboró con Elizabeth Cady Stanton para orga- nizar la convención de Seneca Falls, Nueva York, que dio ímpetu al movimiento sufragista.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund
- 1851
- Object number
- NPG.2009.32
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Half-plate daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.6 x 8.9 cm (4 9/16 x 3 1/2")
- Plate: 14 x 10.7 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/16")
- Case Open: 15 x 23.2 x 1 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 x 3/8")
- Case Closed: 15 x 11.8 x 2.3 cm (5 7/8 x 4 5/8 x 7/8")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Headgear\Hat
- Cased object
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Female
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Arts & Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Arts & Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Abolitionist
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Suffragist
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Feminist
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Minister
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Women's rights advocate
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2009.32
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4225a35a9-9bd6-46e3-bb06-5ffeac9d961f
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