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{{short description|American cartoonist}}

[[File:The Hen That Hatched This Egg (Henry L. Stephens) - MET DP813069 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Self-portrait caricature from ''The Comic Natural History of the Human Race'']]
'''Henry Louis Stephens''' (February 11, 1824 – December 13, 1882) was an American illustrator and [[editorial cartoon]]ist.

==Art career==
Henry Louis Stephens was born in [[Philadelphia]] in 1824. Around 1859, he went to [[New York City|New York]] under an engagement with [[Frank Leslie]]. After a year, he transferred his services to [[Harper & Brothers]]. Stephens was a prolific artist and accomplished a great amount of work for book and magazine illustration.

=== Publications ===
[[File:Stephens-reading-proclamation-1863.jpeg|thumb|Henry Louis Stephens, untitled watercolor of a black man reading a newspaper by candlelight, {{circa|1863}}. The paper's headline reports the [[Emancipation Proclamation]].]]
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 (magazines)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1859–63), ''Mrs. Grundy'' (1869), ''[[Punchline (magazine)|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'' ({{circa|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]].

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==References==
* {{cite encyclopedia |title=The Mark Twain Encyclopedia |editor-first=J.R. |editor-last=LeMaster |editor2-first=James Darrell |editor2-last=Wilson |editor3-first=Christie Graves |editor3-last=Hamric |publisher=Garland Publishing |location=New York and London |year=1993}}
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==External links==
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* {{Gutenberg author |id=7114| name=Henry Louis Stephens}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry Louis Stephens |sopt=t}}
* {{Librivox author |id=2450}}

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[[Category:1824 births]]
[[Category:1882 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century American illustrators]]
[[Category:American editorial cartoonists]]
[[Category:Artists from Philadelphia]]


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