Lucretia Coffin Mott

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Lucretia Mott was of the liberal wing of the Society of Friends (Quakers), and she received an early schooling in debate and oratory by traveling with her husband to Quaker meetings throughout the country. The Quakers were a major force in antislavery agitation, and Mott naturally gravitated to the issue, helping to found Philadelphia's Female Anti-Slavery Society. Mott held that women had a special position in the reform of society, and she soon began to consider women's rights as essential in furthering the reform platform. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she organized the Seneca Falls, New York, convention in 1848 that launched the women's civil rights movement in the United States. As she wrote: "Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being."
Provenance: Mrs. Hendon Chubb, Orange, New Jersey; her niece Mrs. Alan Valentine, Princeton, New Jersey; gift 1974 to NPG

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine

1842

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Stretcher: 76.8 x 64.1 x 2.5cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1"); Frame: 91.8 x 78.7 x 6cm (36 1/8 x 31 x 2 3/8")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Costume\Outerwear\Shawl; Costume\Headgear\Hat\Bonnet; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Female; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Education\Educator\Lecturer; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Social Reformer; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Education\Educator\Teacher; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Suffragist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Feminist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Minister; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Women's rights advocate; Portrait

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