Unidentified Artist
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
| Year Painted | 1845 |
| Collection Link | Museum |
| License | Public Domain |
| File Size (Pixels) | 3642 x 4466 |
| Best Print Size | 11 x 14 |
| *Max Print Size | 24 x 35 |
*Printing this file larger than the recommended max print size may result in a blurry or pixelated final print.
SUBJECT NOTE: Frederick Douglass was one of the most photographed Americans of the 19th century—and that was no accident. A formerly enslaved black man who became one of the most powerful voices for abolition and civil rights, Douglass understood the political power of the image. He sat for portraits again and again, always dignified, never smiling, determined to counter the racist caricatures of Blackness that filled the visual culture of his time. For Douglass, the portrait was not just a likeness—it was a form of resistance.
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