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{{Short description|American book illustrator}}
[[Image:1872 JubileeDays1 byHoppin Boston.png|thumb|right|200px|Self-portrait by Hoppin, 1872]]

'''Augustus Hoppin''' (1828–1896) was an American book illustrator, born in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]].  He graduated from [[Brown University]] in 1848 and [[Harvard Law School]] in 1850 and was admitted to the [[Bar association|bar]], but soon gave up the law and went to Europe to study art.  Upon his return to the United States he devoted himself to drawing on wood and to the illustration of books, in which he was successful. His pictures in ''Nothing to Wear'' (1857), ''Poliphar Papers'' (1853), and ''[[The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table]]'' (1858) are widely known.  He published several volumes of sketches and novels, among the latter ''Recollections of Auton House'' (1881) and ''Married for Fun'' (1885).

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==References==
* {{NIE|title=HOPPIN, Augustus}}

==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author | id=43208| name=Augustus Hoppin}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Augustus Hoppin}}
* {{LCAuth|n85253016|Augustus Hoppin|29|}}

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[[Category:19th-century American novelists]]
[[Category:Artists from Providence, Rhode Island]]
[[Category:19th-century American illustrators]]
[[Category:1828 births]]
[[Category:1896 deaths]]
[[Category:American male novelists]]
[[Category:19th-century American male writers]]
[[Category:Writers from Providence, Rhode Island]]
[[Category:Brown University alumni]]
[[Category:Harvard Law School alumni]]


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