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Engraved Portraits of the First Methodist Divines (MSS 357)
This collection contains forty-five engravings of Methodist theologians, leaders, and clergy members, as well as a few scenes of notable Methodist locations. There is also one engraving of The Last Supper as painted by Benjamin West. A number of notable engravers are credited, for example Thomas Illman, E. Mackenzie (Methodist Book Concern), J. W. Paradise, William D. Smith, and Thomas B. Welch. Many of the engravings were published at the Methodist Book Room in New York.
This volume was donated to the library by Eliza Allison Barry (1846-1922), the wife of Osgood Andrew Barry (1847-1907). On July 3, 1915, Bishop Joseph S. Key presented the volume to Bishop Warren Akin Candler on behalf of Mrs. Barry. According to a tipped-in note, the collection had been in O. A. Barry's family since antebellum times. The note reports that O. A. Barry's father, Judge George La Vallon Barry, had marked the abolitionists in the collection with a capital A beneath the image and an X on the page (ten portraits in the collection bear these markings).
Though the exact date of this collection is uncertain, it was likely completed and bound in the middle of the nineteenth century. The portrait of Robert Newton refers to his service in the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in 1840 and so the dates can be narrowed down to some time between 1840 and 1861.
Images of the Collection
- Methodist Book Concern, 200 Mulbery Street, N.Y.
Rawden, Wright, Hatch and Smillie - John Wesley
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry St., N.Y. - Charles Wesley
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry St., N.Y.; From an Original Painting in the possession of the Family —— Dick. sc. - Revd. John Fletcher
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by J. Jackson Esq. R.A. Engraved by E. Maekenzie - Rev. Joseph Benson
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Drawn by J. Jackson, R.A. Engraved by E. Mackenzie - Adam Clarke
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Drawn by Derby. Engd. by Wm. D. Smith - Milbrook. The Residence of Dr Adam Clarke
Swain del. Dick sc. - Rev. Thos. Coke, L.L.D.
Engraved by T. Illman - Richard Watson
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Engraved by E. Mackensie after Jackson R.A. - Captain Thos. Webb of the British Army, One of the first Methodist Preachers in America
From an Original print in possession of G. P. Disosway Esqr. - View of the Old Methodist Church John Str. N.Y., The first erected in America Founded A.D. 1768
T. Mason & G. Lane, 200 Mulberry St., N.Y. I. B. & P. C. Smith Pinx. A. Dick, sc. - Rev. Freeborn Garrettseon
Paradise, Pinx. Mackensie, sc. - Rev. Thomas Ware, of the Philadelphia Conference
Painted by G. W. Conarroe. Engd. by T. B. Welch - Revd. Stephen G. Roszel, of the Baltimore Conference
Published by the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by Miss S. Peale. Engd. by T. B. Welch - Revd. George Pickering, of the New England Conference
Engraved by T. Illman
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. Joseph Moore, of the South Carolina ConferenceM
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by Thos. Wightman. Engraved by Welch & Walter - Rev. Daniel Hall, M.D., of the Virginia Conference
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by George Cooke. Engraved by E. Mackensie - Rev. J. Jenkins, S. C. Conference
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.York. T.B. Alexander pinx. Mackensie sc. - Rev. Daniel Ostrander, of the New York Conference
Engraved by E. Mackensie - Rev. Robert Newton, Representative of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, England, to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1840
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Engraved by R. W. Dodson from the original painting by J. Neagle - Rev. James Quinn, of the Ohio Conference
Engraved by T. Illman
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. Ebenezer Washburn, New York Conference
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by J. Pine. Engraved by E. Mackensie - Rev. Oliver Beale, Of the Maine Conference
Eng. by E. Mackensie
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. Nathan Bangs DD.
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, New-York. Painted by Paradise. Engraved by E. Mackensie - Rev. Charles Giles.
- Rev. George Harmon, of the Oneida Conference
T.B. Welch Sc.
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. M. Richardson, of the New York Conference
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by J. Nims. Engraved by E. Mackensie
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. S. Martindale, of the New York Conference
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by J. Paradise. Engd. by Wm. D. Smith
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Revd. George Gary, of the Black River Conference. Aged 44 Years, 1837
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by E. W. Goodwin. Eng. by E. Mackensie - John Emory, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Engraved by J. B. Longacre from a Painting by J. Jackson R.A. taken in England in 1820 - Rev. S. Luckey, D.D.
Engraved by T. Illman
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. Manning Force, Philadelphia Conference
T. Illman sculp. - Rev. James O. Andrew, One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
New York, Published by T. Mason & G. Lane, 200 Mulberry Street. Painted by J. Pine. Engraved by E. Mackenzie - Rev. Wilbur Fisk, D.D., Late President of the Wesleyan University Middletown CT.
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Engraved by E. Mackenzie - Rev. Hezekiah G. Leigh, of the North Carolina Conference
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by G. Wattles. Engraved by E. Mackenzie - Rev. John P. Durbin, D.D., President of Dickinson College
Drawn and Engraved by R. W. Dodson
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. Alfred Brunson, A.M. Aged 44 - 1837. Missionary to the Sioux and Chippewa Indians
Painted by Henry Shaffer. Eng. by J.W. Paradise - Rev. M. B. Cox, Missionary to Liberia, Africa
Published by T. Mason & G. Lane, 200 Mulberry Street, N. York. E. Mackenzie, sculpt. - Rev. Henry Chase, Mariners Church, N. York.
J. Paradise pt. 1825. J. W. Paradise Sc. - Rev. W. M. Wightman A.M., Ed. of the Southern Christian Advocate
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Painted by H. Inman. Engraved by E. Mackenzie - Rev. John Seys, Missionary to Liberia, Western Africa
Smith sc. - Rev. Homer J. Clarke A.M., President of Allegany College, Meadville Pa.
Published at the Methodist Book Room, 200 Mulberry Street, N.Y. Engraved by E. Mackenzie
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. Robert Hopkins, of the Pittsburgh Conference
A. D. Wattles Pt. Mackenzie Sc.
Marked as abolitionist by G. Barry - Rev. James Horton
H. Byrd, Pinxt. Wm. D. Smith, sc. - The Last Supper
Painted by Benjamin West. Engraved by Wm. D. Smith
Bibliography: "Ancient Japanese Armor Presented to Emory Museum" The Atlanta Constitution July 6, 1915, page 7.