page_title: Henry Louis Stephens
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Louis Stephens / Art career / Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: Black man reading newspaper by candlelight. Note: Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Drawing; watercolor. Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-2442 (color film copy transparency). Uncompressed archival TIFF version (4 MiB)], level color (pick white &amp; black points), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.2.13.32.4.7
context_page_description: Henry Louis Stephens was an American illustrator and editorial cartoonist.
context_section_description: Stephens was well known as a caricaturist, excelling especially in the humorous delineation of animals, and drew cartoons and sketches for The Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor (1858), a book edited by William Evans Burton, Vanity Fair (1859–63), Mrs. Grundy (1869), Punchline (1870), and other periodicals. He contributed artwork to Mark Twain's comic memoir, Roughing It and the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. He illustrated some children's books, including Aesop's Fables, Death of Cock Robin, and The House that Jack Built; he wrote and illustrated The Goblin Snob (c. 1855), a satirical poem, as well as The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851). He painted in watercolors, but rarely exhibited his works. 
  Stephens died in Bayonne, New Jersey.
caption: Henry Louis Stephens, untitled watercolor of a black man reading a newspaper by candlelight, c. 1863. The paper's headline reports the Emancipation Proclamation.
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