Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston

by Phillis Wheatley

$60,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

State B. Engraving, on laid paper. Sheet size: 183 x 134 mm. Plate mark: 165 x 110 mm. Lightly toned at margins, faint soiling. Stoddard and Whitesell 233/7, pp243–247;312. Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley Peters. Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens, 2023 . Item #366721 Phillis Wheatley was the “‘first colonial American woman of any race to have her portrait printed alongside her

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