Washington Irving House – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Washington Irving House in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington Irving House
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The record gives this picture the title "Washington Irving House," but the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact building is not confirmed. The most likely subject is Sunnyside, the Hudson River cottage near Tarrytown, New York, that Irving remodeled in the 1830s and where he lived until his death in 1859. The image survives as a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its undated record leaves the taking date unknown, but the negative's format and source point to that period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,729 × 4,147 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10530 |
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