Portrait of Emma Lazarus

Thomas Johnson

1790

Engraved half-length portrait of woman facing left.
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Thomas Johnson

1843–1904

Thomas Johnson was an American engraver who produced illustrations for magazines in the 1870s and 1880s. He is best known for several engravings of public figures such as Emma Lazarus, George Eliot, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Lincoln, which he modeled on photographic portraits.

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