Rare Image of Elizabeth Oakes Smith

9/8/2012

 I came across this engraving by Henry Inman of Elizabeth Oakes Smith this morning. An announcement in The United States Magazine suggests that the artwork was completed sometime around 1843. That would make sense, since her book of poems was published the same year.  EOS would have been about 37 years old when she sat for this portrait. Hey, I know someone else who happens to be 37 right now- me! This image was found in a book on Public Domain: 

Illustrated Catalogue of the Remarkable and Widely Known Collection of Early American and British Portraits, Lent & Graff Company, 1920, 268 pages. 

Here's more from the book: