About the Artwork
Walt Whitman
ca. 1891
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
1844-1916
American
Unknown
Platinum print
Image: 3 1/4 × 3 1/8 inches (8.3 × 7.9 cm) Mount: 4 × 3 1/8 inches (10.2 × 7.9 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg
F78.105
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Markings
Inscribed, on verso, in blue pencil: (possibly by Whitman)
Label, on verso: 12-12 | EAKINS | FIG 46 | #110 | SAUNDERS #123 | 15 Label, on verso: 12 Handle with care | EAKINS | FIG 47 | #111 | SAUNDERS #120 | 1360 (on its side) | 13 | Mark, blue pencil erased: [illegible] print as large as possible
Provenance
1978-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Thomas Eakins: His Photographic Works, 1968. Pennsylvania, 1969, no. 111 (fig. 47). [as Eakins. Walt Whitman. Second floor bedroom in Whitman's Camden house. 1891.]
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Walt Whitman, ca. 1891, platinum print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F78.105.
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