[Walt Whitman, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right, wearing hat] / G.C. Cox photo. – Historic Photograph Print
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Step back in time with [Walt Whitman, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right, wearing hat] / G.C. Cox photo., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Walt Whitman, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right, wearing hat] / G.C. Cox photo.
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Whitman sits three-quarter length, turned to the right and wearing a hat, in this platinum print by George C. Cox, made around 1887. By then the poet was living in Camden, New Jersey, where he had settled after a stroke in 1873 left him partly paralyzed, and his portraits circulated widely as a companion to his *Leaves of Grass*. Platinum prints were prized for their soft tonal range and permanence, qualities that suit a portrait meant to show the aging writer with dignity. The record suggests the photograph was likely deposited for copyright, a detail that helps date it and shows how such images entered the public record.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : platinum. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1880-1890.Platinum prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by George C. Cox. Saunders, 94 Copyright deposit (probably); 1887. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997, [p. 370, top left]. |
| Subjects | Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,132 × 1,457 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219014 |
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