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English: Contributor Miller, Robert, active 1830-1843, printer of plates.

Sloan, artist. Gimber & Dick, engraver. Title Morrell, Abby Jane, 1809- Alternate title Abby Jane Morrell / Sloan, pinx’t; Gimber & Dick, sculp’t; Miller; print. Publisher New York : J. & J. Harper. Date [1833?] Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 12.6 x 7.6 cm Description Waist-length portrait of the world traveler, holding a book. Notes In Morrell, A.J. Narrative of a voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831 (New York, 1833), frontispiece.

At age fifteen, Abigail Jane Wood Morrell, known as Abby, married her sea captain cousin Benjamin Morrell, Jr. She accompanied him on a multi-year voyage aboard the schooner Antarctic. In 1831, they returned to New York, in debt. To raise money, Benjamin organized a stage show entitled “Two Cannibals of the Islands of the South Pacific.” The firm J. & J. Harper published their journals as monographs; Benjamin’s was ghostwritten by Samuel Woodworth, and Abby’s was ghost-written by Samuel L. Knapp.
Date circa 1833
date QS:P,+1833-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A24225
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Miller, Robert, active 1830-1843, printer of plates. Sloan, artist.

Gimber & Dick, engraver.

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