[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / Percy Ives. – Historic Photo Reproduction
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[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / Percy Ives.
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This oil portrait by Percy Ives, dated April 6, 1882, shows Walt Whitman in a head-and-shoulders view, turned slightly to the left. At the time, Whitman was living in Camden, New Jersey, where he had settled after a stroke in 1873, and he was known as the author of the ever-expanding *Leaves of Grass*, which had drawn both admiration and controversy. The reverse of the canvas bears an inscription naming a different work, *Woman Standing by Flowering Tree*, which hints at how the painting was catalogued alongside other pieces in the Feinberg-Whitman Collection.
| Created / published | [18]82 April 6. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Portrait paintings 1880-1890.Oil paintings Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress)." |
| Subjects | Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,042 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224665 |
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