Julia Ward Howe

Artist

Alice M. Boughton, 14 May 1866 - 21 Jun 1943

Sitter

Julia Ward Howe, 27 May 1819 - 17 Oct 1910

Exhibition Label

Born New York City

Author of the North’s unofficial Civil War anthem, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Julia Ward Howe balanced multiple identities as a mother, poet, playwright, peace advocate, and tireless promoter of women’s rights. While raising six children, she sought ways to participate in public life, eventually becoming a leader of the suffrage movement. Although her husband, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, head of Boston’s Perkins Institute for the Blind and an active leader in abolitionism, did not support his wife’s public activism, she made her voice heard through publishing. In 1870, she founded Woman’s Journal, a suffragist weekly magazine. Subsequently, she founded and served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Women. New York portrait photographer Alice Boughton met Howe in Boston at the end of Howe’s life for a brief portrait session. Boughton captures Howe’s keen intellect, a quality that defined her as she laid the groundwork for the feminist movement.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

1908

Object number

NPG.88.204

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Photograph

Medium

Platinum print

Dimensions

Image: 16.8 × 15.8 cm (6 5/8 × 6 1/4")

Sheet: 18.2 × 15.8 cm (7 3/16 × 6 1/4")

Mount: 20.4 × 17.5 cm (8 1/16 × 6 7/8")

Mat: 18 × 14 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/2")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Interior

Printed Material\Book

Costume\Jewelry\Ring

Costume\Headgear\Hat\Cap

Julia Ward Howe: Female

Julia Ward Howe: Literature\Writer\Poet

Julia Ward Howe: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist

Julia Ward Howe: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Suffragist

Portrait

Record ID

npg_NPG.88.204

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm413bb8c2e-aede-48f7-8f53-31164b795ffe