Abstract
Even though they were made more than 20 years apart and in different mediums, on the surface the two images—an oil painting and a small photograph—share many similarities. Both show a modest-looking woman, dark hair parted in the middle, wearing a dark dress with white fabric collaring her neck. The woman is Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884), a pioneering American journalist and publisher, women’s rights advocate, and abolitionist who was born in Pittsburgh and lived in the region for much of her life.
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