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[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [1891, printed later] — historic photograph
[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [1891, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Turned slightly to the left, Walt Whitman appears in this head-and-shoulders study dated 1891, the last full year before his death in 1892. By then the author of *Leaves of Grass* was living in Camden, New Jersey, where he had settled after a stroke in 1873 and where he sat for many of his late portraits. The print is tentatively attributed to Thomas Eakins or Samuel Murray, both of whom photographed him in Camden. It is part of the Feinberg-Whitman Collection at the Library of Congress, a large gathering of Whitman materials.

Created / published[1891, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900.
NotesFeinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Possibly taken by Thomas Eakins or Samuel Murray. Saunders, no. 118
SubjectsWhitman, Walt,--1819-1892.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,269 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182305

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