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[Emily Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[Emily Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], 1894 — antique lithograph
[Emily Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right], 1894. Antique lithograph from the Books & Writers 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of [Emily Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This head-and-shoulders portrait shows Emily Dickinson turned to the right, rendered as a lithograph and used as the frontispiece to *The Letters of Emily Dickinson* in 1894. The book appeared eight years after her death in Amherst, Massachusetts, when the public was just beginning to learn her poetry, which had been published only in small selections. Few portraits of Dickinson exist, so a printed likeness like this one carried real weight for readers encountering her for the first time. Its role as a frontispiece placed the author's face at the threshold of her letters, shaping how early readers pictured the woman behind the verse.

Created / published1894
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenrePortrait prints 1890-1900.Frontispieces 1890-1900.Book illustrations 1890-1900.Lithographs 1890-1900.
NotesIllus. in: Letters of Emily Dickinson, 1894, frontispiece.
SubjectsDickinson, Emily,--1830-1886.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161940

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