1847 DAVID TAPPAN STODDARD. Oil on Canvas of Important Middle Eastern Missionary & Bible Translator Missionary In Three Books

In Three Books

signs of art and intelligence and innovation

nicely illustrated

Very good condition with the very slightest of rubbing

1847 DAVID TAPPAN STODDARD. Oil on Canvas of Important Middle Eastern Missionary & Bible Translator Missionary In Three BooksThe only extant painting of Middle Eastern missionary, revivalist, and Bible Translator, David Tappan Stoddard [1818 1857]. A superbly attractive piece of missionary and Bible translation history, executed c. 1847 48. Stoddard was crafted from the cradle to be a missionary and Bible translator. By the age of ten, he was already proficient in Greek and Latin. He sensed a call to the ministry and attended Williams College during the period of revival in