Contributor
Frank and Virginia Williams
Description
This black and white illustration is of David Dixon Porter, a United States Navy admiral in command of the Mississippi River Squadron, which cooperated with the army under Major General Ulysses S. Grant in the Vicksburg Campaign. Porter is depicted as wearing a dark, double-breasted military uniform with epaulettes on both shoulders and a long beard on his face. There is some shading behind him in the illustration. The engraver is named along the bottom edge of the illustration and Porter's signature is depicted beneath. This illustration is from volume seven, of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
Publication Date
1890
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Publisher
New York : The Century Co
Time Period
1890-1899
Subjects
Porter, David Dixon, 1813 – 1891
Object Type
image
Format (original)
illustration
Format (digital)
JPG
Digital ID
FVW_NH_V7_David-Dixon-Porter_001
Source
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 7
Repository
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
Recommended Citation
"Illustration, David Dixon Porter" (1890). Images. 345.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-images/345