Isaac T. Hopper: a true life
Isaac T. Hopper: a true life is a 1854 biography by Lydia Maria Child, published in Boston and Cleveland, written about the Quaker abolitionist Isaac Tatem Hopper for a general reading public. The single plate is a steel-engraved portrait showing an older man in a broad-brimmed hat and a dark coat, seated sideways in a wooden chair with his hands resting on his knees. A designer could take from it the restrained, tonal crosshatching of nineteenth-century portrait engraving and the plain seated pose used for respectable likenesses.
