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Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 – Antique Wall Art

Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Walt Whitman, 1819-1892

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Here the camera turns to a bronze of Walt Whitman, the poet who published *Leaves of Grass* in 1855, shaped by the sculptor Jo Davidson and set in Bear Mountain-Harriman State Park in New York. Davidson was known for lifelike portrait sculpture of prominent Americans and Europeans, and his Whitman work reflects the poet's lasting place in American letters as a writer who celebrated ordinary working people and the open landscape. The caption card carries no date, and its details have not been fully verified, so the year the photograph was taken remains uncertain. Viewers who want to learn more may find it useful to compare the statue's pose and setting with other documented pictures of Davidson's work.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto of statue by Jo Davidson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--Bear Mountain-Harriman State Park; BI; Sculpture--Davidson; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,238 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146717

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