Life of Charles Sumner
Life of Charles Sumner, a biography written by Walter Gaston Shotwell and published in New York by T.Y. Crowell & Co in 1910, aimed at general readers interested in the American statesman Charles Sumner (1811-1874). The two pictures are steel-engraved portrait frontispieces of Sumner, one a three-quarter view of a man in a dark coat and cravat, the other a profile of an older man with wavy hair; both are framed by thin rules and captioned with their sources, showing how nineteenth-century biographies presented their subjects as sober, formal likenesses a designer could use as period reference for dress and portrait style.
