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[Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, showing Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, Massachusetts] – Antique Wall Art

[Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, showing Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, Massachusetts], [1854] — antique engraving
[Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, showing Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, Massachusetts], [1854]. Antique engraving from the Boston 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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This rare antique engraving captures [Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, showing Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, Massachusetts] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This wood engraving on the title page of *Walden* shows the small house Thoreau built beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts, rather than a portrait of the author. He lived there from July 1845 to September 1847, and the 1854 book, published in Boston, turned those years into an account of plain living and close attention to the natural world. The image works as an emblem of the book, linking its ideas about simplicity to a specific place on the pond shore.

Created / published[1854]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenreBook illustrations 1850-1860.Wood engravings 1850-1860.
SubjectsThoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Homes & haunts--Massachusetts. Cabins--Massachusetts--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan738 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161936

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