BIB_ID
286250
Accession number
MA 653.1
Creator
Hollyer, Samuel, 1826-1919, etcher.
Published
after 1873.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 print : etching ; 219 x 146 mm
Notes
Bryant's signature etched below.
From an engraving by S. Hollyer, after an 1873 photograph by Napoleon Sarony. A copy of the Sarony photograph is held in the National Portrait Gallery (ref. NPG.76.69).
Part of a collection that includes Bryant's autograph manuscript of his introduction for a volume of etchings of Old New York by Eliza Greatorex and five related prints: four by Greatorex and a portrait of Bryant signed by Hollyer. Items in the collection are described in 6 individual records (MA 653.1-6).
From an engraving by S. Hollyer, after an 1873 photograph by Napoleon Sarony. A copy of the Sarony photograph is held in the National Portrait Gallery (ref. NPG.76.69).
Part of a collection that includes Bryant's autograph manuscript of his introduction for a volume of etchings of Old New York by Eliza Greatorex and five related prints: four by Greatorex and a portrait of Bryant signed by Hollyer. Items in the collection are described in 6 individual records (MA 653.1-6).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed S. Hollyer.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G. D. Hellman in December 1910 or January 1911.
Summary
Print shows a portrait of an elderly William Cullen Bryant in 3/4 profile, with a full beard and wrapped in a cloak.
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