Samuel Worcester Rowse (January 29, 1822-1901) was an American artist.
His more famous works, mostly drawings in black and white, and in crayon, include:
Annie Adams Fields, wife of Boston publisher James Thomas Fields, sat for a black crayon drawing by Rowse and noted the artist as "eccentric but true and interesting".
Copies of his lithograph of The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia were used by anti-slavery activists prior to and...
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Samuel Worcester Rowse (January 29, 1822-1901) was an American artist.
His more famous works, mostly drawings in black and white, and in crayon, include:
Annie Adams Fields, wife of Boston publisher James Thomas Fields, sat for a black crayon drawing by Rowse and noted the artist as "eccentric but true and interesting".
Copies of his lithograph of The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia were used by anti-slavery activists prior to and during the American Civil War (1861-1865) to raise funds for the Underground Railroad and other anti-slavery campaigns. Henry Brown, a slave, had escaped from Richmond, Virginia in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a small box, where he was received by Reverend James Miller McKim and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society.
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