BIB_ID
286214
Accession number
MA 34.7
Creator
Dick, Archibald L., approximately 1805-approximately 1855, engraver.
Published
before 1858.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 253 x 151 mm
Notes
Graham's Magazine ceased publication in 1858.
Part of a collection of seven items relating to William Cullen Bryant (MA 34.1-7). Items in the collection are described in individual catalog records.
Part of a collection of seven items relating to William Cullen Bryant (MA 34.1-7). Items in the collection are described in individual catalog records.
Provenance
Collection bound together for the New-York Co-Operative Society; purchased from the New-York Co-Operative Society by Pierpont Morgan in November 1908.
Summary
Print is titled "Our Contributers. No. XI." It shows a full-length portrait of young Nathaniel Parker Willis, wearing a frock coat, holding a top hat, and leaning one arm on a stone pillar on which is placed an urn of flowers. "Engraved expressly for Graham's Magazine" is printed below. Signed "Yours most faithfully W. P. Willis." From an engraving by A.L. Dick, after a drawing (?) by G.W. Flagg.
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