Illustrations
Description
This collection contains illustrations from a variety of sources for use in our digital exhibits.
Collection Items
Watercolor of Rutgers College
Watercolor of Rutgers College, painted by Doolittle while a student (late 1850s).
Portrait of Henry Rutgers (1745-1830)
Lithograph portrait of Henry Rutgers by artist Charles G. Crehen. Copy from an oil painting by Henry Inman. Henry Rutgers sat for the portrait with Inman around 1828, when Rutgers was approximately 83 years old. Crehen drew his lithograph from…
Portrait of John Neilson (1745-1833)
Etching of John Neilson by Albert Rosenthal. Rosenthal copied Neilson’s portrait from a painting in the possession of the family. The print pictured here was issued in Philadelphia in 1881.