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William Cullen Bryant [print] / painted by Alonzo Chappel.

Record ID: 
290775
Accession number: 
MA 686.3
Published: 
undated.
Credit: 
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.

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 fr

Provenance: 
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Print
Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts