1840 Anti-Slavery Society Convention

This is a cool paint­ing that we’ll be using to accom­pa­ny an upcom­ing Friends Jour­nal (friend​sjour​nal​.org) arti­cle on Lucre­tia Mott. 

Lots of cool things about this. #1 is that we made pos­i­tive ID of the pic­ture via Google Gog­gles image search (tech­nol­o­gy FTW!). #2 is that the image map on the linked page lets you pick out a num­ber of the par­tic­i­pants; Lucre­ti­a’s not labeled but pre­sum­ably she’s the woman next to James Mott, who’s near the right side look­ing down. #3 is that the fiery speak­er is none oth­er than Thomas Clark­son, the Angli­can whose “Por­trai­ture of Quak­erism” is a must-read for the Quak­er geek set. #friend­sjour­nal #art

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[edit] Using an Imagemap. The image map is most­ly obvi­ous as it will show you what will hap­pen if you just move your cur­sor over the pic­ture. The one thing that does con­fuse is try­ing to see a full vi… 

Posted December 13th, 2011 , in Uncategorized. Tagged