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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Portrait Gallery

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Object Details

Artist

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, 1856 - 1942

Sitter

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 12 Nov 1815 - 26 Oct 1902

Exhibition Label

Born Johnstown, New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton initiated the demand for women’s voting rights in 1848. The women’s suffrage movement began in earnest, however, after Stanton and Susan B. Anthony became enraged that the Fifteenth Amendment (1869–70) conferred suffrage on uneducated, formerly enslaved men but excluded white women. They made their position clear in 1869 by breaking off from the American Equal Rights Association, an abolitionist organization, to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Rather than changing individual state constitutions, they called for a federal amendment granting women the right to vote. Moreover, Stanton called for “Educated Suffrage,” which would limit voting rights to the literate, disqualifying most formerly enslaved African Americans and many poor, illiterate white people.
Stanton emphasized her own reading habits and intelligence in this portrait. Seated beside a hefty volume stacked with papers, her eyeglasses resting on her lap, she appears lost in serious contemplation.
Nacida en Johnstown, Nueva York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton inició el reclamo por el sufragio femenino en 1848. Sin embargo, el movimiento empezó a consolidarse cuando Stanton y Susan B. Anthony se indignaron porque la Enmienda 15 (1869–70) otorgaba el sufragio a hombres sin educación, antes esclavizados, pero excluía a las mujeres blancas. Dejaron clara su postura en 1869 al separarse de la Asociación Americana Pro Igualdad de Derechos, organización abolicionista, para formar la Asociación Nacional Americana Pro Sufragio de la Mujer. En vez de cambiar cada constitución estatal, pedían una enmienda federal que diera a las mujeres el derecho al voto. Stanton también abogó por el “sufragio educado”, que excluiría del voto a las personas analfabetas, descalificando a la mayoría de los afroamericanos antes esclavizados y a muchos blancos pobres.
Este retrato enfatiza los hábitos de lectura y la inteligencia de Stanton. Sentada junto a un libro voluminoso y una pila de papeles, con los lentes en el regazo, parece absorta en seria reflexión.

Provenance

National American Woman Suffrage Association; gift 1924 to Smithsonian; transferred 1971 to NPG.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Museum of American History; gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association through Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, 1924

Date

1889

Object number

NPG.71.30

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Stretcher: 101 x 81.9 x 2.5cm (39 3/4 x 32 1/4 x 1")
Frame: 116.8 x 97.8 x 7cm (46 x 38 1/2 x 2 3/4")

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Exhibition

Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900

On View

NPG, East Gallery 123

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Printed Material\Book
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
Costume\Jewelry\Pin
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Female
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer\Magazine article writer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Abolitionist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Suffragist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Temperance reformer
Portrait

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4917e85f4-63f4-4656-b21c-c54197fb92ff

Record ID

npg_NPG.71.30

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