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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman, ca. 1862

  • American

Albumen print

  • Sheet: 4 5/8 × 2 7/8 inches (11.7 × 7.3 cm) Mount: 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (8.9 × 14 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg

F1983.262

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Inscribed, dated in pencil, on mount, center, verso: 1862 | SAUNDERS #19 | SAME PERIOD | SAME PHOTOGRAPHER | nod in saunders | [7 (encircled)]

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Feinberg (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Saunders, Henry S. Whitman Portraits. Toronto, 1922, no. 19 (ill.).

American, Walt Whitman, ca. 1862, albumen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F1983.262.

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