Celebrating the Bible in Women's History

Collection ID

PHO.000876

Type

Photograph

Date

ca. 1865–1880

Geography

United States

Language

N/A

Medium

Printed on Paper

Dimensions

8.3 × 5.1 × 0.04 in. (21 × 13 × 0.1 cm)

Exhibit Location

Not on View

This engraving by famed New York artist H. B. Hall depicts Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the leading voices of the women’s suffrage movement in the nineteenth century. Stanton’s many achievements included the publication of The Woman’s Bible, which reprinted biblical passages related to women along with commentaries that asserted the equality of men and women. She and her committee of authors aimed to combat those who used the Bible to justify women’s subservient status. The book sparked considerable controversy and led many friends and allies to distance themselves from Stanton and her work. The Woman’s Bible, however, is now considered a pioneering work in feminist biblical scholarship. Part I appeared in 1895. Part II followed in 1898.

Created between 1865 and 1880 by Henry Bryan Hall, engraver, New York. Purchased by 2017 by Rebecca Dodson, private collector, Tennessee; Purchased in 2019 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.

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