Portrait of Thaddeus Stevens in gold-painted oval frame, an 1867 mezzotint of an 1862 photograph. Stevens' left shoulder is right front and he faces left. He wears a suit jacket, vest, white shirt with buttons and thin knotted necktie around the stand-up collar.
Typed on paper on back of piece: "Thaddeus Stevens./ The great commoner and promoter of the public school system/ practised (sic) law in Lancaster, Pennsylvania/ Uncle William T. Fulton, Esq., of Oxford, Chester Co. Pennsylvania,/ studied law under Thaddeus Stevens./ My father, Hugh R. Fulton, Esq., was a great admirer of Stevens/ and delivered lectures on his philosophy./ This picture, in its oval frame, hung in father's office,/ above his desk, throughout his fifty eight years practising (sic) law/ in Lancaster, Pennsylvania."
Below, written cursively in ink: "This should go to the/ Lancaster County/ Historical Society-/ E. J. Fulton"
Oval frame is 15.5' wide x 18.25' long with depth (about 1.5 inches)
On back are two eyebolts with wire loops attached for hanging.
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2022-09-22
Condition Notes
Image is under glass. Small nick in gold paint on frame revealing plaster on lower outside of frame, center right. A chip off shiny gold paint on upper right.
Tiny cracks on both sides, inside of frame touching glass, middle of portrait.
Photograph- Farmhouse possibly located on tract of land originally surveyed for the Gillespie family but taken up by William Fulton in 1742. Note with photograph reads: Gillespie Tract. The Gillespie Tract was 393 acres, lying along the Conowingo Creek, which was surveyed to one James Gillespie, and taken up by William Fulton in 1742, and later increased by three other pieces, making it nearly 600 acres. This seems to have covered what is now known as the Frank C. Pyle mill, the Smedley property, John Landis Herr's property and probably the Dr. Gryder property, now Shoemakers'. - Quarryville Sun, October 9, 1923. Historical address by Lewis Hughes Kirk, Drexel Hill, Pa., Centennial Anniversary of the erection of Friends Meetinghouse at Penn Hill, Lancaster County.
Photograph- Farmhouse possibly located on tract of land originally surveyed for the Gillespie family but taken up by William Fulton in 1742. Note with photograph reads: Gillespie Tract. The Gillespie Tract was 393 acres, lying along the Conowingo Creek, which was surveyed to one James Gillespie, and taken up by William Fulton in 1742, and later increased by three other pieces, making it nearly 600 acres. This seems to have covered what is now known as the Frank C. Pyle mill, the Smedley property, John Landis Herr's property and probably the Dr. Gryder property, now Shoemakers'. - Quarryville Sun, October 9, 1923. Historical address by Lewis Hughes Kirk, Drexel Hill, Pa., Centennial Anniversary of the erection of Friends Meetinghouse at Penn Hill, Lancaster County.
Description
Farmhouse possibly located on tract of land originally surveyed for the Gillespie family but taken up by William Fulton in 1742. Note with photograph reads: Gillespie Tract. The Gillespie Tract was 393 acres, lying along the Conowingo Creek, which was surveyed to one James Gillespie, and taken up by William Fulton in 1742, and later increased by three other pieces, making it nearly 600 acres. This seems to have covered what is now known as the Frank C. Pyle mill, the Smedley property, John Landis Herr's property and probably the Dr. Gryder property, now Shoemakers'. - Quarryville Sun, October 9, 1923. Historical address by Lewis Hughes Kirk, Drexel Hill, Pa., Centennial Anniversary of the erection of Friends Meetinghouse at Penn Hill, Lancaster County.
