Description: MRS. SIGOURNEY Artist: Unknown ____________ Engraver: H. B. Hall, Jr Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE FAMOUS FEMALE PORTRAITS LIKE THIS!! AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING MADE IN THE 1860s !! ITEM IS OVER140 YEARS OLD! VERY OLD WORLD! INCREDIBLE DETAIL! The "Sweet Singer of Hartford" for whom Sigourney Street was named, one of the first American women to succeed at a literary career. A teacher, born in Norwich, Lydia Huntley moved to Hartford at the invitation of Daniel Wadsworth to open a school for the daughters of his friends. With her marriage to Charles Sigourney in 1819 came financial stability, allowing her to give up teaching and devote herself full time to writing and publishing anonymously. Lydia used proceeds from her writing to contribute to charitable causes including the temperance movement, peace societies, Greek war relief, and the work of missionaries at home and abroad. In Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) she turned Indian tales into blank verse urging conversion of Native Americans to Christianity. When her husband's business began to fail, she sold poems and sketches to magazines. After the success of Letters to Young Ladies (1833), her most popular prose work, she abandoned anonymity despite her husband's objections. Within a year she had published eight other volumes including Poems (1834), a collection of her verse that was reprinted three times. Her popularity was so great that rival publishers competed for her work. Death and piety were her favorite subjects; her rhyming of pious truisms had a wide appeal. Lydia went abroad in 1840 where she was received by Wordsworth, had tea with Carlyle and was presented at the court of Louis Philippe. Between 1840 and 1850 Mrs. Sigourney published fourteen collections of her poetry. Her celebrity reached its height with the 1849 publication of her Illustrated Poems in a sumptuously bound, gilt-edged edition. She continued to write almost a volume a year until her death. SIZE: Print dimensions are 5 inches by 8 inches. CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. SHIPPING: Buyers to pay shipping/handling, domestic orders receives priority mail, international orders receive regular mail. We pack properly to protect your item! Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, print, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, NOT blocks of steel or wood. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were inserted into the book with a tissue guard frontis, usually on much thicker quality rag stock paper, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper. A VERY DETAILED ANTIQUE PRINT!
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: New Providence, New Jersey
End Time: 2025-01-14T14:02:28.000Z
Shipping Cost: 7.95 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Material: Engraving
Type: Print
Subject: Women
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
