Approx. 12 x 10 in. octagonal ivorytype unattached but with a similarly sized cardstock mount. Signed in ink "Kate Hayes" and "Hayes" to lower left and right.

We were only able to locate one other example of this hand-colored ivorytype, which is part of the National Portrait Gallery Collection at the Smithsonian.

Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a leader of the Radical Republicans before, during and after the American Civil War. Stevens was a firebrand abolitionist who was an active member of the Underground Railroad and devoted most of his energies in opposing the expansion and even the continuation of slavery in America.