BIB_ID
290775
Accession number
MA 686.3
Published
undated.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 print ; image: 183 x 137 mm; sheet: 220 x 151 mm
Notes
Part of a collection of 20 items (including letters, poems, and engravings) related to William Cullen Bryant. Items are described individually in 20 records (MA 686.1-20); see related records for full description.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
Print shows a full-length portrait of an elderly William Cullen Bryant seated at a table with a book in his lap. From a painting by Alonzo Chappel. With a facsimile of Bryant's signature below, and the engraved note "Likeness from the latest Photograph from Life."
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