Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
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Few American poets were as widely read in their own lifetimes as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and this wood engraving by T. Johnson shows him as the magazine's readers would have known him. It appeared in *The Century Magazine* in 1886, four years after Longfellow's death in 1882, when the periodical was running portraits and essays that kept interest in his work alive. Wood engraving was the standard way to reproduce such portraits in illustrated magazines of the period, which is why the image has the dense, carefully hatched texture typical of its time.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving by T. Johnson. Illus. in: Century Magazine, 1886. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Shelf; Publ. Ind.; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Sources checked: MUMS. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,230 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150160 |
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