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Lyman Beecher, D.D.

PhotographerPhotographed by Martin M. Lawrence

PrintmakerEngraved by Nathaniel Orr American

Dateabout 1860

MediumWood-engraving; printer's ink on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 1/2 x 4in. (11.4 x 10.2cm)
Sheet (height x width): 10 5/8 x 7 7/8in. (27 x 20cm)

Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection

DescriptionBust-length portrait of an elderly man wearing a heavy coat, vest, and stock.

Object number2009.59.0

InscribedOn recto, beneath image, "LYMAN BEECHER, D.D."

On verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numberNotesSubject note: Lyman Beecher was born in New Haven and attended Yale College. He served for many years as pastor of the Congregational Church in Litchfield and later was director of the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died in Brooklyn, New York at the home of his son, Henry Ward Beecher. His other children included Catherine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker.

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