Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), (sculpture).

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), (sculpture).

Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick, 1877-1968, sculptor.

Moorhead, Scipio, painter. (copy after)

Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), (sculpture).

ca. 1925, after engraving published 1773.

Painted plaster.

Oval: 8 x 6 1/4 x 3/4 in. (20.3 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm).

(Inscribed around upper front border:) PHILLIS WHEATLEY A NEGRO SERVANT TO MR JOHN WHEATLEY OF BOSTON

Portrait female -- Wheatley, Phillis -- Waist length

Occupation -- Writer -- Poet

Ethnic -- African American

Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Collection of American Literature, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 Accession Number: 1980.213

Bequest of Nail, Grayce Fairfax,

This image is after an engraving published Sept. 1, 1773 by Archd. Bell, bookseller, London; after lost oil, possibly by Scipio Moorhead of Boston.

Yale University Art Gallery, 1988.

Freedman, Paula B. and Robin Jaffee Frank, "A Checklist of American Sculpture at Yale University," New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992.

Freedman, Paula B., "A Checklist of American Sculpture at Yale University," New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992, pg. 68.

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