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Benjamin Rush portrait, 1813
Benjamin Rush (1745/46-1813) was a leader of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. He founded Dickinson College, was Surgeon-General of the Continental Army, and a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He championed empiricism in medicine, abolition, and free education. He was an all...
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| Collection: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania portrait collection (#V88) |
| Date: | 1813 |
| Dimensions: | 18.1 x 25 cm |
| Location: | 7th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, PA |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/1475 |
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Benjamin Rush (1745/46-1813) was a leader of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. He founded Dickinson College, was Surgeon-General of the Continental Army, and a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He championed empiricism in medicine, abolition, and free education. He was an all-around intellectual who still embodies the most cherished and inscrutable virtues of the American Revolution. This engraving was modeled after Thomas Sully’s portrait of Rush, arguably his most famous depiction. The original painting is held by the University of Pennsylvania in their Pennsylvania Hospital Historic collections in the Pine Center Building. David Edwin was an American engraver, born in Bath, England. As a young man, he had run away to sea, and arrived in Philadelphia in 1797. Here, he became employed by portrait painter Edward Savage (1761-1817), and worked for him as a commercial engraver for twenty years until his eyesight failed. He died in Philadelphia in 1841. |
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