Birthplace and home of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, Mass. – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Birthplace and home of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, Mass., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Birthplace and home of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, Mass.
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This etching shows the Cambridge, Massachusetts, house where Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in 1809, when it was the parsonage of his father, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, minister of the First Church. Holmes went on to become a physician, a professor at Harvard, and the author of *The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table*, and the house became closely linked with his early life and his reputation in New Englan. Published in New York by Benjamin F. Buck in 1910, some sixteen years after Holmes's death, the print was made as a tribute. Its remarque proof, a small sketch in the margin, includes a bust of Holmes, which is a detail collectors often look for.
| Created / published | New York: Benj. F. Buck, 1910. |
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| Medium | 1 print : etching ; 25 x 35.4 cm. |
| Notes | Signed with initials on plate. Remarque proof: bust of Holmes. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 152. Copyright deposit. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,116 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109718 |
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