Engraver: Punderson & Crisand (American, about 1860). Lemuel S. Punderson (American, active about 1850's). Emil Crisand (American, active about 1858 - 1860).
Title: Rev. Samuel William Southmayd Dutton.
Titled, Dated, and Signed in plate: Engd. by Punderson & Crisand. S. W. S. Dutton.
Dimensions: 7" x 5 1/4" (trimmed).
Date: ca. 1860.
Materials and Techniques: line and stipple engraving on wove paper.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: soiling, stains, trimmed. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: possibly, frontispiece from unidentified edition of sermons by S. W. S. Dutton.
Museums and Libraries: The Worcester Art Museum 1910.48.2513.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: American School XIX C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from Archives at Yale and the catalog entry of a similar item from the Worcester Art Museum collection.
- Samuel Dutton was minister at North Church (now United Church on the Green), New Haven from 1838 to 1866. He was a noted champion of the antislavery cause. Graduated from Yale in 1833. [Biography from Yale College of 1833. "Received his Doctor of Divinity from Brown University." From the book "The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations" by Mary Ellen Snodgrass."After his marriage in 1838 to Harriet, the Duttons dedicated themselves to abolitionism. At the Dutton home at 113 College Street, they listened for a coded knock at the door. Escapees bathed and ate and then slept in the attic until dark when it was safe to continue to Chester, Deep River, or Southington on the New England-Canada route of the secret network. Dutton and his collaborators provided a legal defense and moral support to 35 surviving mutineers from the slave ship Amistad." Contributor: kks (47275856)].